Guidebook for Montevideo
Arts & Culture
Teatro Solís
Bartolomé MitreDrinks & Nightlife
Parque Rodo
Avenue Julio Herrera y ReissigThe Puta Madre Bar
1962 CanelonesSightseeing
Centro
Entertainment & Activities
Rambla Pte. Wilson
Getting Around
The Tres Cruces Terminal in Montevideo is undoubtedly the most important and the one that brings together all the land transport companies in Uruguay.
Thanks to the increase in tourism year after year, the Tres Cruces Terminal has more than 20 million visitors each year. It is located on Artigas Boulevard 1825, a few minutes from downtown Montevideo and the main attractions of the city. It is worth noting that from Tres Cruces Terminal we are only 2 blocks away from Avenida 18 de Julio, the main avenue of the city.
Its location is strategic because, despite the traffic in the area, it is a very favorable point when it comes to accessing the different routes in the country. Inaugurated on November 1, 1994, the Tres Cruces Terminal was designed by architect Guillermo Gómez Platero in collaboration with Roberto Alberti and Enrique Cohe. Since its inauguration, this terminal has had a great influence on urban planning in Montevideo. The buses before this were concentrated mostly in the Plaza Cagancha, this project being a relief for the Montevideo Center.
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Tres Cruces
The Tres Cruces Terminal in Montevideo is undoubtedly the most important and the one that brings together all the land transport companies in Uruguay.
Thanks to the increase in tourism year after year, the Tres Cruces Terminal has more than 20 million visitors each year. It is located on Artigas Boulevard 1825, a few minutes from downtown Montevideo and the main attractions of the city. It is worth noting that from Tres Cruces Terminal we are only 2 blocks away from Avenida 18 de Julio, the main avenue of the city.
Its location is strategic because, despite the traffic in the area, it is a very favorable point when it comes to accessing the different routes in the country. Inaugurated on November 1, 1994, the Tres Cruces Terminal was designed by architect Guillermo Gómez Platero in collaboration with Roberto Alberti and Enrique Cohe. Since its inauguration, this terminal has had a great influence on urban planning in Montevideo. The buses before this were concentrated mostly in the Plaza Cagancha, this project being a relief for the Montevideo Center.
The oldest theater in Uruguay and the entire western hemisphere. Located in the old town of Montevideo, near the Independence Square. Built according to the design of the Italian architect Carlo Zucchi in the neoclassical style and officially opened on August 25, 1856. The side wings of the building were completed in 1874 under the direction of the French architect Victor Rabu. The theater is named after the Spanish discoverer Juan Diaz de Solis. This is the history of the country.
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Teatro Solís
Bartolomé MitreThe oldest theater in Uruguay and the entire western hemisphere. Located in the old town of Montevideo, near the Independence Square. Built according to the design of the Italian architect Carlo Zucchi in the neoclassical style and officially opened on August 25, 1856. The side wings of the building were completed in 1874 under the direction of the French architect Victor Rabu. The theater is named after the Spanish discoverer Juan Diaz de Solis. This is the history of the country.
Emblem of the montevidean culture
One of the intersections that cross the area of Avenida 18 de Julio where Plaza Libertad is located, in addition to the Avenida General Rondeau, is the Passage of Human Rights, which was established in 1836 and which gives it a deep symbolic and significant dimension to this city space that is so linked to its history.
The square had its genesis in unison parallel to the birth of the republic, beginning to be built in 1836 as the central square of the entire layout of the so-called "New City" designed by the engineer José María Reyes, outside the boundaries of the walled enclosure of the colonial period and as a response to the need to expand the territory of a capital in full expansionist boom.
In 1840 it received its name, which refers to the battle waged a year before, in 1839, when General Rivera defeated the invading forces of the government of Buenos Aires. Seeking to seal the conciliation between the traditional parties of the time, in 1867 its iconic Column of Peace was inaugurated and thus began to take its characteristic form.
With the passage of time, the square went through various transformations that, throughout its history, were shaping and giving new meaning to this central point of Montevideo. During the glorious 900 Uruguayan, robust buildings began to be built in its vicinity, with styles that began to contrast strongly with its original style, adjusted to the classicism and sobriety that, until then, had so much characterized Plaza de Cagancha.
In this way, in 1994 an intense series of new interventions was developed in the square, generating spaces more suited to modern needs, more picturesque environments; characterized by diverse specimens of vegetation and a beautiful fountain with neoclassical and romantic elements, as well as the renovation of some elements in the floor and the decoration that gave it a much more contemporary touch.
At present, the Plaza Cagancha is a typically Uruguayan place, diverse, peaceful and serene, but always in movement, with cultural proposals of all kinds (especially during the carnival and candombe parades) and a very important meeting point for the demonstrations, being par excellence one of the most significant sites in which the Uruguayan people are concentrated to be heard.
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Plaza de Cagancha
Emblem of the montevidean culture
One of the intersections that cross the area of Avenida 18 de Julio where Plaza Libertad is located, in addition to the Avenida General Rondeau, is the Passage of Human Rights, which was established in 1836 and which gives it a deep symbolic and significant dimension to this city space that is so linked to its history.
The square had its genesis in unison parallel to the birth of the republic, beginning to be built in 1836 as the central square of the entire layout of the so-called "New City" designed by the engineer José María Reyes, outside the boundaries of the walled enclosure of the colonial period and as a response to the need to expand the territory of a capital in full expansionist boom.
In 1840 it received its name, which refers to the battle waged a year before, in 1839, when General Rivera defeated the invading forces of the government of Buenos Aires. Seeking to seal the conciliation between the traditional parties of the time, in 1867 its iconic Column of Peace was inaugurated and thus began to take its characteristic form.
With the passage of time, the square went through various transformations that, throughout its history, were shaping and giving new meaning to this central point of Montevideo. During the glorious 900 Uruguayan, robust buildings began to be built in its vicinity, with styles that began to contrast strongly with its original style, adjusted to the classicism and sobriety that, until then, had so much characterized Plaza de Cagancha.
In this way, in 1994 an intense series of new interventions was developed in the square, generating spaces more suited to modern needs, more picturesque environments; characterized by diverse specimens of vegetation and a beautiful fountain with neoclassical and romantic elements, as well as the renovation of some elements in the floor and the decoration that gave it a much more contemporary touch.
At present, the Plaza Cagancha is a typically Uruguayan place, diverse, peaceful and serene, but always in movement, with cultural proposals of all kinds (especially during the carnival and candombe parades) and a very important meeting point for the demonstrations, being par excellence one of the most significant sites in which the Uruguayan people are concentrated to be heard.