Post by Ella A well behaved rally on Plaza Indepencia. Along with simmering sunsets viewed from our 11th story AirBnB.
Day: April 27, 2024
Walking guru
Post by Ella Much better weather Saturday, in fact, nearly perfect walking weather. We met Jorge (of GuruWalks) at Plaza Zabala for our delayed historical walk. Uruguay has rich history. Between the Spanish and Portuguese along with the meddling British, they had quite a time until gaining independence. Jorge described Uruguayans as “melancholic “. Argentinians…
The big urn
Post by Grubb. Today (Saturday) our walking tour of historic Montevideo took us to the underground mausoleum in Plaza Independencia where the large urn holding José Gervasio Artigas ashes are guarded by two soldiers. Artigas is the Uruguayan George Washington. He assembled the states that formed Uruguay and declared independence from Spain. As far as…
All in a day
Post by Ella. As mentioned, the day yesterday included torrents of rain and claps of thunder. Our Plan B Museum+Uber strategy yielded an unexpected but interesting tour of the city. Going from one museum to the next through different neighborhoods gave us an idea of the variety and diversity that is Montevideo. When we reached…
Little people poking through
Post by Grubb. Yesterday the second place we stopped during our rainy day Montevideo museum ramble was the Museo des Visual Artes. From the outside it looked like a modernist mid-school painted in bright primary colors with a modest sculpture garden. Inside, it had a large collection of Uruguayan painters whose main purpose was to…
Flight 571
Post by Grubb. It’s fitting that that the first museum we visited in Montevideo on Friday, after having on Tuesday been in the Andes, was the one devoted to the 1972 plane crash of a Uruguayan flight that, leaving Mendoza en route to Santiago, failed to make it over the mountain range. The accident took…
Today in Montevideo will be
Post by Ella Today, April 27, 2024