Ciudad Vieja (Montevideo)

Ciudad Vieja is a neighborhood ( barrio ) of the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo.

The Ciudad Vieja, the old town and thus the historic center of Montevideo. It is located in the south of the department of Montevideo. Located on the western part of the local Peninsula, it borders on their east by the Centro and Barrio Sur neighborhood and is otherwise surrounded by the waters of the Río de la Plata, the Rambla, the Barrio rotates on its coastline. Is the port of Montevideo on the north side.

While the old town, mostly as a result of the harbor and the banking sector, including retail and hospitality houses, it serves especially for residential purposes socially weaker strata of society. At the same time in this significant for tourism Barrio, which constitutes the original nucleus of Montevideo, a number of important buildings and places concentrated.

The Old Town attaches to the Plaza Independencia and on the left there on the west side before head historic city gate, the Puerta de la Ciudadela on. From there, the designed as a pedestrianized Calle Sarandi leads as the most important street of the neighborhood to the west. Not far from the gate of the town is the Museo Torres García. The pedestrian zone leading to the Plaza de la Constitución, which is also known as Plaza Matriz. At this both the Cathedral of Montevideo, the right hand side of this location Museo Gurvich, and the Cabildo are located with the Museo Histórico y Archivo Municipal. A few hundred meters up road in a southwesterly direction leads the Sarandi then past the Museo de la Palabra the Plaza Zabala, in which the intersecting cross street Alzáibar leads and on which the Palacio Taranco is the Museo de Artes Decorativas is based. The to the southwest end of the peninsula continued in a straight line Calle Sarandi goes there eventually in the Escollera Sarandi, a protruding into the Río de la Plata, walk and used among others by anglers breakwater of several hundred meters in length.

Not far from the Plaza Independencia in a southerly to southwesterly direction is on the there running parallel street to Sarandi, Calle Buenos Aires, Teatro Solís. Again, a few hundred meters to the south adjacent to the local Rambla Gran Bretaña the Plaza España. West of this is the Templo Inglés. In Cuadra, between Plaza España and the Teatro Solís is the building of the Mercado Central.

At a second major street of the neighborhood, Calle 25 de Mayo, there is the hospital Hospital Maciel. Furthermore, the Romantic Museum at Casa de Antonio Montero, the Museo de Arte Precolombino e Indígena, the Edificio Centenario, or the Chilean Embassy in this street are the Casa de Lavalleja, resident. Also here lies west of the nearby Plaza Zabala, between the streets Colón Solís and Casa Garibaldi, where Giuseppe Garibaldi lived.

Close to port, close to or on the Rambla 25 de Agosto de 1825, the sequel to the Rambla FDRoosevelt to the west, the Mercado del Puerto are also opposed to the building of the duty and the ferry terminal with the local Buquebus terminal, the Museo del Carnaval and the Ministry of Tourism and Sports and the Las Bóvedas and Casa Lecocq. Also to be found here is the Garibaldi monument in the Rambla FDRoosevelt at the junction of the Rambla 25 de Agosto.

Significantly in the Ciudad Vieja are also the Museo Histórico Nacional harboring Casa de Rivera at the corner of Misiones / Rincón, in the Uruguayan President Fructuoso Rivera lived. Worth mentioning are also the headquarters of the Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay and the Museo de la Construcción at Casa de Toribio.

Overall, the old town is crossed within the peninsula umführenden Rambla of nearly seven parallel streets from northeast to southwest. These are the streets Piedras, Cerrito, 25 de Mayo, Rincon and Washington, Sarandi, Buenos Aires, Reconquista. This cross - next to each some small road branching - perpendicular from northwest to southeast to Plaza Independencia 13 blocks. These are the Juncal, Bartolomé Mitre, Juan Carlos Gómez, Ituzaingó, Treinta y Tres, Misiones, Zabala, Solís and Alzáibar, Colón, Pérez Castellano (see: Edificio La Proa ), Francisco Maciel, Guaraní and Juan L. Cuesta.

Teatro Solís

The Cathedral and the Plaza Matriz upstream

Plaza Zabala

Street in old town

Mercado del Puerto

Cabildo of Montevideo

Escollera Sarandi