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History and museumsThis forum post is dated 08/07/10. If you feel it is old or outdated, please follow up with a question or comment and someone may be able to update it, or reply with newer information if you have it.
Forum Post08/07/10 15:03Santo Domingo, love Uruguay | History and museums I am particularly into history and museums. I love colonial times and I know that Uruguay has awsome colonial buildings and preserved areas.My mayor in college is, guess, history and next month I plan to visit this favorite country of mine. I love to study gaucho culture and would like to visit the rural areas to see the famous cattle ranches and wine "viñedos" that we hear about. Does anyone have any suggestions or recommendations on this? I would really appreciate it, I would also love to meet students with my own interests while I am there. Would like to hear from you folks! Thanks! |
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Joaquín, to start with, have in mind that Uruguay was colonized 200 years later than your country. The first village desserving that name was Colonia del Sacramento, founded by the Portuguese in 1680. Montevideo was founded almost fifty years later, and that is relly the start of colonization in Uruguay, wich in turn was never one of the rich settlements during colonial times. So don't expect to find the quantity and quality of colonial buildings that you could find in the earlier colonies of the Empire. That said, Colonia is well preserved and even if the colonial architecture may still be that of a peripheral province, the town has certainly a remarkable atmosphere. In Montevideo you can still find some (very few) colonial buildings. However the Ciudad Vieja, the Centro, and the Prado is full of very interesting buildings of the XIX and early XX centuries. Visit the Teatro Solís. It was the first Opera house in Southamerica. Built during a big civil war in wich Montevideo remained under siege during 12 years; recycled recently during one of our most important economic crisis... so it's a symbol of survivance. There is a gaucho museum in the Center, in a well preserved XIX century house. Very interesting. Gauchos were really a way of living long ago gone; so, even if you will still find "cowboys" in the rural areas, the term gaucho is not that precise to name them. Anyway, if you visit an estancia, you will have the taste of uruguayan rural life as it is in modern days. |
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