Carrasco Lawn Tennis Club

Nice and cold

Cold

At The Solis

Hall of the Teatro Solis

Fog

Sailing boats hidden by the fog. There is a lot of it during the winter in Montevideo

The edge

The fog coming in

Salvo Palace

From here you can see the "Plaza de la Independencia" and the "Palacio Salvo"
In the 20's, the Salvo brothers wanted a hotel, they hired an italian architect named "Mario Palanti", the construction started in 1922. At the end, it was not a hotel but apartments.
Some people say that once, "La Giralda" (a "confiteria") was located at the land where the "palace" was built, in there, the famus tango "La Cumparsita" was wrote by Gerardo Hernán Matos Rodríguez.

Sky and shadow

The shadow is from "La Puerta de la Ciudadela" and at the end you can see the "Teatro Solis"

Palms

Mates y Bombillas

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Mates

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The Catedral

The cathedral was the city's first public building, since 1804.

Cabildo

Where Uruguay 's Constitution was signed in 1830

The Uruguay Club

Sarandí 584.

Other view

from under the "Puerta"