Italian Hospital of Montevideo

The Hospital Italiano Umberto I is a building in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo.

This is on 1 June 1890 in the presence of the then Uruguayan President Máximo Santos, his ministers, the Italian Ambassador representing the Italian king, the Duke of Licignano as well as the Count Antonio Greppi as a representative of King Umberto I of Savoy building was inaugurated in Barrio Parque Batlle on the border with Tres Cruces on Avenida Italia, Bulevar Artigas and the Calle Jorge Canning. For the construction was responsible as an architect Luigi Andreoni. The design is stylistically attributable to the eclecticism and is based on the Italian architecture of the 16th century. These references to Giorgio Vasari's Galleria degli Uffizi be seen in particular. The building complex, which is arranged in two parallel, three courtyards enclosing blocks, houses a hospital that reproached 2003 250 beds. 1952 known as Sanatorio Italiano extension added due to the exhausted capacity of the hospital. This was done under the direction of architect Carlos Surraco. These and other structural changes affected the original ambience of the building.

Since 1975, the Hospital Italiano Umberto I as Monumento Histórico Nacional is classified.