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We
invite you to enter to
this page, where some of
the attractive of the city
are described.
To
visit Colonia, is of
course an attractive,
historical and cultural
sightseeing.
The
following ones are the
places you are obliged to
visit.
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Colonia
del Sacramento:
-The
Door of the City
-
Sighs Street
- Museums
- Nacarello’s House
- San Francisco Xavier’s
Convent
- Bastion “Del Carmen”
- The Church
- House of the Viceroy
- Real
de San Carlos
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Anchorena’s
Park
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Orphans
Calera
The
church where, the
activities of the
“Estancia of the
cows” were joined
more than 200 years
ago administrated by
Don Juan de San
Martin till 1974 and
place of birth of
the Argentinian
liberator older
brothers.
Carmelo
It’s
a city without noise
and with a nice
villages flavor.
A legend
tells that, that who
crows over its
bridge ever comes
back.
His yachts
Lander, one of the
most comfortable of
the country, is
considered as a
social center of the
yachts of River
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The
region has the best
conditions for the
viticulture production.
Its microclimate, solar
position and geological
structure, together to the
nobility of the strum,
produce the mother’s
grapes of the “Great
Wines”.
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Church
of Narbona
It’s
considered an
architectonical
relic of colonial,
owing to its thick
walls, arches and
good carpentry, in
full epoch, even for
Montevideo, of the
clod, adobe and
leather.
Chain
of beaches –
Colonia Valdense
Los
Pinos, Fomento,
Blancarena,
Britopolis are the
diadems of the
beaches’ crown,
that adorns the East
of Colonia. Clean
sands, unpolluted
water and beautiful
forest give
generosity and
enjoyment of the
nature to the
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Punta
Gorda
From
its cliffs, an inn
dominates the River
Uruguay, which leaves its
water in the “river like
sea”.
The Solis’
Pyramid reminds the great
sailors and for the stairs
that go down to the beach,
you can watch the studied
extracts by Charles Darwin
in 1833.
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Colonia
Suiza
It’s
situated in the
South East of
Colonia. It was
founded the 25th
of April of 1862, by
a group of
immigrates, mainly
Swiss, who where
accompanied by
German, French and
Austrians.
It has been
considered since its
beginnings as a
colony of a great
undertaker spirit to
which the natives of
the Uruguay joined. |
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Anchorena’s
Park
In
the middle of hundreds of
flora and fauna varieties,
the majestic tower seems
to look after the repaired
rest of the Uruguayan
governments who look for
peace there, to imagine
the future country and the
roads which takes to the
happiness.
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