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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

La Piedra Movediza

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

A huge rock, teetering on the edge of a hill for thousands of years, brought tourism, fame, and what’s said to be a 100-year curse to the town of Tandil, Argentina Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/la-piedra-movediza

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's something mesmerizing about precarious things.

0:10.2

Things dangling, suspended, on the edge.

0:15.9

Things that feel like they should get into gravity at any moment but instead defy it.

0:23.5

Deep-rope walkers, mountain goats, the leaning tower of Pisa.

0:34.1

But what happens when something that has defied gravity for its whole life?

0:40.3

Something so beautifully, unbelievably stable in its instability?

0:45.7

Topples.

0:49.0

I'm Abby Peralt, and this is Atlas Obscura.

0:53.3

A daily celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places.

0:58.4

Today, we're heading to Tanbiu, Argentina, where a huge rock,

1:03.6

teedered on the edge of a hill for thousands of years.

1:08.0

We'll find out how La Pietra, Movedice, brought tourism, fame,

1:13.1

and what said to be a 100-year curse to the city.

1:19.5

After this.

1:47.8

The city of Tanbiu is just outside Buenos Aires, in Argentina.

1:51.9

It's the birthplace of an internationally famed tennis player, home to a great university,

1:57.6

a scenic lake.

1:59.4

But this city's identity is a wobbly rock.

2:05.2

There are cafes and hotels and institutions across Tanbiu, named after this rock, and it's

2:11.7

believed to be central to the city's name itself, stemming from the words for falling

2:16.8

rock in Mapuche.

2:19.2

But this isn't just any wobbly rock.

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