Yesterday we visited Simón Patiño's beautiful country house. Patiño was among the world's wealthiest people in the 1940s. He built his fortune by owning the majority of the tin industry in Bolivia. He was nicknamed "the Andean Rockefeller." Patiño's country house, Villa Albina, was named after his wife. The house is a mansion built in 1915, and is sorrounded by beautiful gardens. The furniture and all the decorating items were brought from Europe.
The house is about 50 min from Cochabamba. Since my family doesn't own a car, we took a bus, a mini bus and a taxi top get there. It was quite an ordeal but worth it.
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