Eden Rock

Playa de los Ingleses is a small beach, the first on the Atlantic side of the peninsula. Its name - The Englishmen’s beach – comes from the first decades of the century, when a group of English people would meet for tea on a balcony which no longer...

Right at the tip of the peninsula of José Ignacio towards the eastern side is the lighthouse. It was built in 1877, and is 32,5 m high, with a geographic range of 16,5 miles and a luminous range of 16,5 miles. It issues a white flash every 2...

From the arrival of Solis (the discoverer of the River Plate) to the Bay of Maldonado on 2 February 1516, the day of the Candelaria Virgin, the port of Punta del Este was constantly fought over. Even before the independence of the country, General...