Craft and gastronomical fairs
Culture in Salta
Discover the magic of Salta through its crafts and incredible gastronomy.
Each town or city in the province offers gastronomic establishments with a great variety of typical foods. You can also find national and international gourmet food.
Featured Events
Empanada Day (April 4)
Malbec Day (April 18)
Altura Torrontés Week (October)
Salta flavor
Salta has a varied offer of quality products that give identity to the local gastronomy.
Wine Route
Its landscapes, its colors, the breeze from the mountains and a transparent sky, make the Salta Wine Route the chosen place to enjoy historic towns, vineyards, wineries and wines.
CRAFT FAIRS
Güemes Square Fair
The Plaza Güemes fair is a must for tourists who visit Salta and want to take home a regional souvenir. Now also for Salteños it is a place to walk and buy these regional products. The fair is made up of approximately 100 artisans who arrange their products around the square.
Address: Plaza Güemes (Leguizamón between Balcarce and Mitre)
La Balcarce Fair
The Balcarce Craft Fair is a display of crafts with forms, sounds and aromas that transport images that are far away and very present at the same time. The number of visitors grows Sunday by Sunday, not only because of the presence of tourists who come from different parts of the world, but also because of the same people from Salta who prolonged the magic of meeting friends at night to the point of becoming a walk for the families, being able to enjoy sunny afternoons with the taste of our traditions and fun with music and shows, both for adults and children. The crafts are diverse, the most typical are those made in alpaca, fabrics, embroidery, ceramics, sweets, etc.
Address: Balcarce and Ameghino
Cerro San Bernardo Fair
Given the impressive panoramic view of the City of Salta, the fair is added as a proposal to enjoy the great experience at the top of Cerro San Bernardo. Visitors can discover a wide variety of quality handicrafts such as typical textiles from the area that make up ponchos, blankets, vicuña and alpaca wool jackets, colorful skirts, girdles, shawls, scarves, scarves, caps, hats, wool stockings, slippers as well as purses, bags, backpacks with guards and other options. You can also find carved or painted wooden plates, bowls and wooden or clay pots with guards, small typical toys and all kinds of products to take home a nice souvenir from Salta.
Address: Top of Cerro San Bernardo
Vaqueros Fair
On Saturday mornings no one questions the plan. There is a meeting that became a ritual, that day all Vaqueros meet at "the Fair."
At the beginning there were 5 stalls but over time it became a walk where you can buy absolutely everything, from fruits and vegetables at incredible prices, plants, homemade sweets, sweet doughs and buns, clothing and local handicrafts like the typical embroideries from the Island and a range of foods that range from regional foods such as locro, empanadas and humitas to pizzas and barbecues. For many local artisans and producers, the fair is the only showcase to display their work.
Address: On Route 9 passing the Vaqueros River bridge
Campo Quijano Artisans Fair
Every Saturday and Sunday, Campo Quijano offers a craft fair with the sale of regional foods in the Martín Fierro square. At the fair you can find works in iron, cardón, wood, clothes and wool crafts, regional foods and sweets. The stalls are arranged around the entire square so that Salta residents and tourists can learn about their crafts and the production of small local entrepreneurs.
Address: Plaza Martín Fierro (Av. 9 de Julio)
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