Maldonado

Built around 1800 by order of Minister Rafael Pérez del Puerto, this simple and elegant tower served the purpose of warning the authorities of Montevideo and Buenos Aires of the ceaseless incursions of enemy vessels - especially British ones – into...

From the times of the earliest settlements this area was the main watering zone. Its water was so pure, and so abundant that it was called “the King’s well”. Towards 1873 its use was discontinued, nevertheless during the 1921 drought it was used...

This military construction, built in 1771, was the barracks of the Dragons or Blandengues troops. It consists of a series of rooms and a chapel around a great patio. National hero General José Artigas overnighted there in 1797, when he was in the...