By The building was designed by the architect Mario Palanti, an Italian immigrant living in Buenos Aires, who used a similar design for his Palacio Barolo in Buenos
World Cup – The first goal in the first stadium in Montevideo
This stadium was mainly used for football matches of the owner club Peñarol from 1921 to 1933. It was demolished later in the 1930s because Peñarol started
Battle of the River Plate – The first naval battle in the Second World War in River Plate
The German heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee had cruised into the South Atlantic a fortnight before the war began, and had been commerce raiding after receiving appropriate
La Mano – The large-scale fingers in Punta del Este
The sculpture by Chilean artist Mario Irarrázabal depicts five human fingers partially emerging from sand and is located on Parada at Brava Beach in Punta del Este,
