Neighborhoods
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International
Carrasco Airport
Located in Carrasco, on the east side of
the city, this is the main international airport of Montevideo,
even though it is geographically located in the department
of Canelones. Its actual name it is not the original one,
in fact it is part of the original International Airport of
Carrasco General Cesareo L. Berisso. According to what the
story says. It was opened in 1947.
From some of the principal European cities and the most important
American cities it is possible to arrive to Montevideo by
plane.
From the Airpark
Jorge Newbery of the city of Buenos Aires, come nearly
10 daily flights to the International Airport of Carrasco in Montevideo.
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Carrasco
Well- known since the origin of its name. This montevidean
neighborhood has this name due to Salvador Sebastián
Carrasco, one of the first man who lived in Montevideo and
even the uncle-grandfather of the national hero of Uruguay,
José Gervasio Artigas. Even though many years ago it
was an important resort, it was internationally known as if
it were at the same level of Rio de Janeiro; nowadays it has
become an exclusive and residential neighborhood. Among its
constructions we can find many shops, sportive clubs, elegant
restaurants also the antique Carrasco Hotel which was built
in front of the coast in 1921.
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Montevideo
Downtown
If you think about downtown you must take
into consideration 18 of July Avenue. This is a long and amazing
avenue that goes through downtown from the beginning up to
the end and in each part has something interesting to show
you.
Over it you will find everything, from barbecues, tattoo
shops, galleries plenty of shops, faculties, banks up to souvenirs
shops. Everybody consider it as a meeting point, there are
also many squares where most people enjoy drinking our popular
drink “mate”.
On Sunday when it seems that everything it is completely
closed or out of duty, Tristán Narvaja market over
the street of the same name, shows the opposite. Tristán
Narvaja has got antiques, strange things and everything you
can imagine, from a messenger pigeon up to an old pasta disco.
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Old
City
When talking about the old city we must say
that nowadays is the most outstanding and renewal zone of
Montevideo. Around it, takes place the most attractive activity
of the city. It is the closest zone to the port, the Market
of the Port full of restaurant where you can taste the typical
Uruguayan barbecues; and very close to it the Matriz square,
the one that used to be the central one, and the Cathedral,
also there you can visit a typical antiques market.
All its magic begins at Independence square (under it there
are the ashes of José Gervasio Artigas), with some
of the most representative buildings of the city, the Solís
Theatre and Salvo Palace; then there is the Ciudadela gate
that take you over Sarandí pedestrian street. Culture,
history, typical food and entertainment, you will find all
these at the Old City of Montevideo.
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Malvin
Malvin neighborhood started to be built due
to Francisco Piria, two hundred years after it was consider
as the “laundry of the east” at first when it
was a small but important zone. Its actual name is in order
to one of its first inhabitants, Juan Balbín González
Vallejo. The fonetical deformation of his surname made it
Malvín instead of Balbín.
Nowadays, the area is so big that is dived in three parts:
North Malvín, Old Malvín and New Malvín,
the last one is one of the residential neighborhoods of the
city.
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Palermo
To say Palermo is a synonymous of Candombe and Llamadas, both
are important part of the traditional Uruguayan carnival,
besides the neighborhood is consider itself as a preferential
area of Montevideo, close to the sea and downtown, too. In
it there are still the antiques common or collective houses
of black people and immigrants of other times, which are called
“Conventillos” apart from other more contemporaneous
buildings. Anyway, the most interesting buildings are the
Central Cemetery (built in 1835), the National Pantheon where
are buried some of the most representative citizens of the
country. It is also possible to visit Galicia square or visit
Reus neighborhood on the south.
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Pocitos
Characterized for its amazing chalets and
residences mixed with modern buildings in front of the rambla,
its peak started in 1910 with the construction of the shore
that communicates it with Punta Carretas neighborhood. Nowadays
it is the zone of the landowners, businessman and professionals;
besides it counts with the first shopping center of Montevideo,
Montevideo Shopping Center.
Anyway in Pocitos you can find distinguished restaurants
of international menu or classical pizzerias. Add to all these
things the coast rambla that invites to walk over it.
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Punta
Carretas
Punta Carretas and Parque Rodó neighborhoods are the
one that are completely surrounded by The La Plata river and
without doubt, this and theirs natural color, is what ensures
the difference with the others neighborhoods of Montevideo.
On the other side, here there are some of the best restaurants
of the city, fine bars and pubs, and of course, The Punta
Carretas Shopping Center, born due to the re construction
of a historical and famous jail where the most incredible
escape of the history of Uruguay took place. Talking about
sports, we can mention, turf (with the racetrack on the East),
football and golf.
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Punta
Gorda
This neighborhood of Montevideo has an extension
of seventy-seven blocks. It is close to the coast and Barofio
Park a kind of branch that gets into the river, because of
this, the neigborhood has this peculiar name. It is nearly
20 km from downtown. One of its well-known building is the
Nautical Club of Punta Gorda.
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Tres
Cruces
Located close to the popular avenues 18 of July, 8 of October,
and Artigas Bulevar.
Even though it is known by its own it has a historical importance.
It was the place where José Artigas created the Instruction
of the year XIII, exactly in the house of Don Manuel Sainz
de Cavia, the place where today it is the Britanic hospital.
Definitely, many thing could characterize and represent this
zone, but there is a subterranean tunnel that makes easier
the traffic of the city between 18 of july and 8 of October
avenues. Here there are also the international terminal bus
station and the Tres Cruces Shopping Center, a big white cross
that remind us the visit of the Pope Juan Pablo II.
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