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Museo del Hombre y la Tecnología
Housed in an historic market building, this museum features excellent displays on local cultural development and history upstairs, and a small archaeological section downstairs.
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Archivo Regional
On the northwest edge of the plaza, Archivo Regional contains historical documents along with pottery and glass excavated from the 18th-century Casa de los Gobernadores nearby.
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Museo de Arte Precolombino e Indígena
This museum displays a permanent collection of artifacts and information about Uruguay’s earliest inhabitants, along with rotating exhibits focused on native peoples of the Americas.
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Museo Gurvich
Newly relocated to Ciudad Viejas main pedestrian thoroughfare, this museum is devoted to Lithuanian-born Constructivist artist José Gurvich (1927–74), who lived most of his life in Uruguay.
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Puerto Viejo
Colonia’s yacht harbor makes for a very pleasant stroll. The nearby Teatro Bastión del Carmen is a theater and gallery complex incorporating part of the city’s ancient fortifications.
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Museo Portugués
In this beautiful old house, you’ll find Portuguese relics including porcelain, furniture, maps, Manuel Lobo’s family tree and the old stone shield that once adorned the Portón de Campo.
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Laguna de Rocha
An ecological reserve protected under Uruguay’s SNAP program , this vast and beautiful wetland 10km west of La Paloma has populations of black-necked swans, storks, spoonbills and other waterfowl.
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Museo Figari
One of Ciudad Vieja’s newest museums is devoted to Uruguayan painter Pedro Figari, whose landscapes and portraits masterfully convey a sense of Uruguayan life in the late-19th and early 20th centuries.
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Playa Brava
This beach on the eastern (Atlantic Ocean) side of Punta del Estes long peninsula has rougher water, as reflected in the name Playa Brava (Fierce Beach). The waves and currents here have claimed several lives.
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Museo del Indio y del Gaucho
Paying romantic tribute to Uruguay’s gauchos and indigenous peoples, this museum’s collection includes stools made from leather and cow bones, elegantly worked silver spurs and other accessories of rural life.
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Palacio Legislativo
Dating from 1908, and still playing host to Uruguay’s Asamblea General (legislative branch), the three-story neoclassical Parliament building is also open for guided tours at 10:30am and 3pm Monday to Friday.
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Museo Indígena
Houses Roberto Banchero’s personal collection of Charrúa stone tools, exhibits on indigenous history, and an amusing map upstairs showing how many European countries could fit inside Uruguay’s borders (it’s at least six!).
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Portón de Campo
The most dramatic way to enter Barrio Histórico is via the reconstructed 1745 city gate. From here, a thick fortified wall runs south along the Paseo de San Miguel to the river, its grassy slopes popular with sunbathers.
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Casa Garibaldi
Casa Garibaldi is where Guiseppe Garibaldi once lived. The 19th-century Italian nationalist hero spent years of exile in Montevideo following a revolt against the monarchy. Not a bad place to go into hiding, really.
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Cerro Pan de Azúcar
Just north of Piriápolis in eastern Uruguay, theres a trail to the top of Cerro Pan de Azúcar that you can climb. At 493m (1617ft) its Uruguays third-highest point, crowned by a huge cross and a conspicuous TV aerial.
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Museo Naval
Along the eastern waterfront in Buceo, this museum traces the role of boats and ships in Uruguayan history, from the indigenous Charrúa’s canoe culture to the dramatic sinking of the German Graf Spee off Montevideo in 1939.
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Convento de San Francisco
Off the southwest corner of Plaza Mayor 25 de Mayo are the ruins of the 17th-century Convento de San Francisco, within which stands the 19th-century faro . The lighthouse provides an excellent view of the old town.
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Iglesia Matriz
Uruguay’s oldest church – begun by the Portuguese in 1680, then completely rebuilt twice under Spanish rule – is the centerpiece of pretty Plaza de Armas. The plaza also holds the foundations of a house dating from Portuguese times.
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Museo Histórico
This historical museum displays evocative images from the multiple 19th-century sieges of Paysandú, including of the bullet-riddled shell of the cathedral and women in exile watching the city’s bombardment from an island offshore.
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Museo de Artes Decorativas
The Palacio Taranco, a wealthy 1910 merchant’s residence designed by famous French architects Charles Girault and Jules Chifflot, is filled with ornate period furnishings and paintings by European artists including Ghirlandaio and Goya.
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