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- Puerta de Campo.-
The door and the bridge today restored in front of the current
Square of 1811, it was inaugurated in 1745, in the Portuguese
Governor's period Vasconcellos, great instigator of the
construction of the city and their activities.
- Museo Español.-
Located in the streets of Spain and San José, built
by the Portuguese in 1720 with walls 90 centimeters wide
of begun stone, between quebracho floors and roof of conical
tiles. It is known as Bartolomé Mitre's House although
in fact this Argentinean character only spent the night
in this house in an opportunity. Their beginnings were as
housing becoming dedicated later on as local commercial
for finally to be restored with their current destination
of museum. -
- Bastión del Carmen.-
In Rivadavia and street of the Virrey Cevallos. Antigua
fortification of the colonial time, leaves of the defensive
wall of the city. Later on he/she settled a soap factory
whose high chimney of bricks is appreciated at the distance.
- after its recycle he/she has become what is today the
Theater of the Carmen's Bastion, having room of exhibitions
for sample of different artistic disciplines. - When leaving
the theater when passing the chimney you consents to the
old tunnels of the original defensive wall of the strength.
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- Museo del Azulejo.-
Located in San Gabriel's Rambla Paseo and street Missions
of you Cover them, almost in San Pedro's Bastion. Typical
construction of the time lusitana and it harbors an interesting
collection of handmade tiles, some centennial, among those
that stand out those of the factories Aguilar of Maldonado.
- it is one of the most important existent museums in this
type. -
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Calle de los Suspiros.-
Very narrow, paved with wedge stones and central stream.
You marry typical of the first half of the XVIII century.
- Iglesia Matriz.-
It is the oldest in the country, having suffered successive
partial destructions motivated had made of war or accidents
of different order. Located in the street Governor Vasconcellos.
Their old walls, sizes and columns reflect their busy marked
history of destructions and reconstructions that go back
to the first year of the foundation of Colony. -
- Campus Municipal.
Ravine Christopher Columbus, among streets Dr. Fosalba and
Lavalleja. Complex sport of 3.5 hás, with soccer
court and athletics hint. Capacity for 8.000 spectators.
- El Real de San Carlos.-
Elected place for the Virrey Pedro of Cevallos in 1761 for
the establishment of the Spanish troops to siege to the
Portuguese colony. The real expression is owed by application
to the king's fields that he/she was Carlos III in that
time. There the Chapel of San Benito of Palermo was built
(the black saint) that is conserved in the place with its
original foundations of stone. - there are Also barracks,
batteries and housings for soldiers. - The square of bulls
was built inside the Moorish style, standing out its enormous
refractory bricks and its artistic grates brought especially
from Spain (which were object of insane pillaging); with
a capacity for 7.000 people was inaugurated January of 1910,
9 maintaining its activity until the year 1912 in that you/they
were prohibited the bullfights definitively. - since it
has been depredated partly and that it has suffered the
inclemencies of the time today one can only observe from
out not being allowed its entrance. It is the only square
of bulls of the country and in the American South Cone.
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