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...
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...
Playa El Emir is the second beach on the Atlantic coast of the peninsula. It is named after an eccentric visitor of Punta del Este, Emir Emin Arslan, who built his house on that beach during the twenties. Even after the construction of the Rambla it...