Locat­ed on land pro­ject­ing into the Uruguay Riv­er west of the town of Fray Ben­tos, the indus­tri­al com­plex was built f…

The his­to­ry of the Colo­nia del Sacra­men­to Light­house dates back to the ear­ly and mid-19th cen­tu­ry. Accord­ing to speci…

The ruins of the San Fran­cis­co Con­vent (Con­ven­to de San Fran­cis­co), dat­ing back to the 17th cen­tu­ry, is on the southw…

A nat­ur­al for­ma­tion of caves forty-six kilo­me­tres from Trinidad and rec­og­nized by UNESCO.

Found­ed by the Por­tuguese in 1680 on the Rio de la Pla­ta, the city was of strate­gic impor­tance in resist­ing the Spani…

Locat­ed on land pro­ject­ing into the Uruguay Riv­er west of the town of Fray Ben­tos, the indus­tri­al com­plex was built f…

Close to Uruguay’s ‘Riv­iera’ at Pun­ta del Este and the fash­ion­able fish­ing vil­lage of José Igna­cio, the Bode­ga Garzón…

Sea lion rook­ery.

For an authen­tic off-the-grid beach expe­ri­ence, noth­ing beats Cabo Polo­nio. Hard to access (you’ll need a 4WD vehi­cle…

One of Uruguay’s most pop­u­lar beach des­ti­na­tions becomes the play­ground of celebri­ties once sum­mer rolls around. This…

River­side park to the west of the city, dot­ted with euca­lyp­tus trees, bright­ly col­ored bench­es, and white bar­be­cue gr…

Fos­sils, includ­ing a glyptodon, and oth­er pale­on­to­log­i­cal and arche­o­log­i­cal dis­cov­er­ies on dis­play.

Area: 718,47998 sq. km., vol­ume: 8800 cubic meters, depth avg: 12,2 m, shore length: 1031,17 m, res time: 190,5, elev…

In this 18th cen­tu­ry objects from the time when Colo­nia was a part of the Por­tuguese empire are on dis­play includ­ing …

19th-cen­tu­ry tiles are on dis­play in the tile muse­um. At Paseo San Gabriel just behind the muse­um there is a beau­ti­fu…

Closed for ren­o­va­tions as of Octo­ber 2017. Here you can see every­day objects from the Span­ish era, the late 18th cent…

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Recon­struct­ed some­what on the ruins of the orig­i­nal build­ing. Don’t miss the whale skele­ton on dis­play just to the we…

Area: 166,03 sq. km., vol­ume: 872,12 cubic meters, depth avg: 5,3000002 m, shore length: 53,419998 m, res time: 2519,…

The house was built by the Por­tuguese in the 18th cen­tu­ry and called Casa de Pala­cios. The muse­um shows doc­u­ments fro…

Fea­tures arti­facts, var­i­ous col­lec­tions and gift shop, full of sou­venirs and Wyoming books.

An impres­sive cathe­dral for a town of 30,000.

The town’s main plaza, with the usu­al trees and the oblig­a­tory stat­ue of Arti­gas.

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Next to the basil­i­ca and sev­er­al restau­rants, this square includes the ruins of the for­mer gov­er­nor’s house (”Casa d…

Beau­ti­ful plaza with a gaze­bo at its cen­ter. The gaze­bo, unique in Uruguay and orig­i­nal­ly built in Eng­land, was finan…

Muse­um in two floors pre­sent­ing objects of dai­ly life 200 years ago as well as the works of sci­en­tists and explor­ers …

The heart of Sucre, sur­round­ed by the cathe­dral, the office of pre­fec­ture, the town hall, the his­toric Casa de la Lib…

Show­cas­es numer­ous arti­facts, most­ly from the indige­nous pop­u­la­tion of the area.