In 1977, the life of Pedro Martín Ureta, an Argentine farmer who owned a ranch in the Pampas, changed forever when his wife Graciela Yraizoz, just 25 years old and pregnant, suddenly died from a cerebral aneurysm, a devastating loss that left him heartbroken and years later drove him to fulfill a dream they had shared: creating a guitar-shaped forest on his property.
A few years before the tragedy, Graciela had flown over the area and was fascinated to see a farm designed in the shape of a milk carton, and when she got home she asked Pedro if it would be possible to give their own field the shape of a guitar, the instrument she loved so much, but he, without giving it much importance at the time, replied that “they would talk later”, a conversation that never took place because death came between their plans.
However, he did not forget that request, and in 1979, together with his four children, he got to work building a guitar-shaped forest enclosure, laying out simple, spaced lines.
Planting more than 7,000 trees, including cypresses for the outline and the star-shaped hole in the center, and eucalyptus trees to depict the instrument’s “strings”.
To this day it is so immense that it can be seen from space; even NASA has documented it, and it is visible on Google Earth, an eternal tribute that Pedro gave to Graciela.