Uruguay - Peñarol Quarter: The Historic Old Town and the Industrial Railway Landscape

"The historical district of Peñarol, with its industrial and railway landscape, is made up of groups of buildings dating back to the last decade of the nineteenth century, when the British company Central Uruguay Railway transferred the workshops and the railway station which before were in the Bella Vista neighborhood. At present, Peñarol is still inhabited by railway employees, among others. In a circuit of seven blocks, heavily strewn with parks, are located the residences of the staff of the hierarchy, the housing workers, a bridge on the railway, the railway workshops (mechanical, forge, foundry, sawmill, carpentry, workshop painting, shipping and printing), the office building, the train station, a social center (the Center Artesano, former trade school), a theater and movie theater, a general store or General Store , the doctor's house and the facilities in which the British played cricket, polo and tennis. This is a total of 33.000m2 built in an area of ​​24 hectares."

Source: UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List

Uruguay - Isla de Flores Cultural Landscape and its fluvio-marine context

Isla de Flores is today one of the most complete witnesses - in terms of buildings associated to an insular space - of the health and medical control criteria affecting millions of immigrants worldwide during the nineteenth century. During this period, the greatest movement of masses in human history took place, thus creating one of the characteristics of that worldwide process known as modernization.

Uruguay - Insular area and bay of Colonia del Sacramento

The Bay and the Islands of Colonia del Sacramento represent the region of the Portuguese settlement, which is under UNESCO list of World Cultural Heritage since December 6, 1995. At the same time it would add to the existing zone, a reservoir of historic testimonies of the rural life. The area forms, as a whole, a singular example of the daily colonial life carried out in the sea, the city and the country. The geographical area within the Bay and the Islands entails some of the richest aspects of the maritime history in South America. The West direction that the coast takes in relation to the continent, motivated—in the first years of the sixteenth century—the search for an inter-oceanic connection through De La Plata River and the first sea settlements of America, specifically in the mentioned area. From the consideration of Tordecillas Treaty, an increase in the sea traffic and maritime occupation mainly occurred by the Portuguese and Spanish but also by the incipient English and Dutch fleets. In the Bay and Islands the first maritime settlements form up in the zone and the first anchorage and shipyards are prepared. Architectonic testimonies of those moments are found in San Gabriel Island. Several shipwrecks that the bay holds contribute to document this historical process. Some of them belong to certain stages of the discovery and others give evidence of commercial activities that allow De La Plata River to abandon, from 1680, its condition of marginal area to become an active commercial region. As a consequence of the foundation of Colonia del Sacramento, this area becomes an active commercial area maintaining the tradition of maritime bastion and the access to the southern continent of America.

Uruguay - Chamangá: A Rock Paintings Area

The area of Chamangá, located in the Province of Flores is characterized for having the greatest concentration of pictographic sites from Uruguay. The potential of this place in relation to these type of archeological areas is confirmed day after day with the constant increase in the number of rupestrian representations findings. More than 40 rock paintings have been registered up until the moment. These artistic sites are found in open areas where granite blocks were used as support for the production of paintings. These round-shaped granite blocks are common in the center and south part of the country, surrounded by a landscape of plains and hilly lands. In this archeological area that entails 100 km2 approximately, the relationships between the painted blocks and their archeological context have been considered as well as their development within this frame that constitutes a cultural scenery called the rock paintings area of Chamangá. The pictographs are characterized by abstract representations with varied geometrical motives and the monochrome within the nuances of the red. They have been estimated to be more than two thousand years old. Some particular cases of paintings with miniature style as well as fine engravings are distinguished accurately. Besides the high density of pictographs, the archeological investigations - although still insufficient - have determined the existence of a varied archeological register. The latter includes: polished lithic materials, pottery, as well as quarry sites. The data taken from the archeological investigations indicate that the area was temporary occupied by groups of hunters-collectors-fishermen.

Uruguay - 20th century Modern Architecture of the City of Montevideo

The set of works of architecture (buildings, buildings, urban spaces and landscape interventions) named "Architecture of the XX century of the City of Montevideo" is constituted by a significant number of works representative of an architecture that includes a wide variety of architectural expressions. It is a monumental ensemble of exceptional features, witness of an era, and a certain way of understanding the architecture, the urbanism and the transformation of the physical and social environment.

Uruguay - La Rambla (promenade) of the City of Montevideo

The good is affected like National Historical Monument by Resolution of the Executive authority Nº 584/86 of the 14 of August of 1986. Therefore, it is also included like Good of Municipal Interest, by Decree of the Departmental Legislative of Montevideo Nº 26864 from 5 August 1995. La Rambla runs through three areas under heritage protection: The Old Town, Pocitos, Carrasco and Punta Gorda, each under the tutelage of its respective Permanent Special Commission. In the same way, five public spaces with patrimonial assignment to the national rank: The Central Cemetery, Parque Rodó, Parque de las Instrucciones del Año XIII (known as Golf), Parque Hansen y Plaza Virgilio. Finally, we should also note along the Rambla several buildings that enjoy national or departmental protection. In the last case, these were occasional assignments either as a National Historic Monument or as a Municipal Interest Property, but also as buildings that are included in the heritage catalogs of the aforementioned areas.