This historic section of town takes you back to the 17th and 18th centuries, with an array of interesting museums, an historic lighthouse and Uruguay’s oldest church.
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This historic section of town takes you back to the 17th and 18th centuries, with an array of interesting museums, an historic lighthouse and Uruguay’s oldest church.
This drawbridge over a moat was built in 1745 as the only entrance to the city.
Ferrando is the family name of the owner of this area at the beginning of the 20th. century. His business was to sell stones and sand to Buenos Aires as building material. The little beach named...
Portuguese history is the central feature of this cultural heritage museum.
Ascend to the top of this still-operating 1857 lighthouse for a lovely view of the city.
Strikingly stark and simple in design, this 17th-century church is one of the oldest in Uruguay.
Visitors can view the ruins of one of the city’s oldest buildings, this late 17th-century convent.
Housed in a 300-year-old house, this unusual museum displays 19th-century European and Uruguayan tiles.
Eduardo Arenas has been collecting key chains, beverage cans, ashtrays, perfume bottles and pencils for nearly fifty years. This odd museum contains many thousands of these and other trinkets and gifts collected by Arenas and his family. Some farm animals roam out back.
