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History, step by step We start with the house of Lorenzo, one of Piria’s sons. (Avenida de Mayo between Avenida Piria and Uruguay St., the street that goes to the top of San Antonio Hill). In this house we can visit the Piriapolis Art Museum (MAPI), that opens in the summer. Hotel Colon was built for Piria’s youngest son, Arturo, and can be visited all year-round. It has a permanent art exhibit where you can see majolicas and a black granite fireplace, made with materials from the stone quarry of Cerro Pan de Azucar. Taking a walk along the majestic rambla, you can appreciate the ornamenting pilasters, which are a symbology compendium. |
| Getting to the “Paseo de la Pasiva”, you can observe the first public baths of the century and one of the city’s treasures: the Colonia de Vacaciones Dr. Emilio Oribe, where the first Piriapolis hotel was located (inaugurated in 1905) and administered by Piria himself. A few steps from the Colonia de vacaciones, on Armenia St., we find the railroad Museum, which also offers a guided tour. On Rambla de los Argentinos, we find the Argentino Hotel, opened in 1930, which was the most sumptuous hotel in South America at that time. All its equipment was calculated to last until the year 2000, considering possible breakings and robberies. Guided tours can also be arranged there. To the right of this magnificent building, we find the Pabellon de las Rosas, that used to be a horse stable in Piria’s times. He bought the place to be used as a movie theater and to serve the Hotel meals that were included in the service they offered to the people from Montevideo who came to the “Seaside Resort of the Future”. It is presently being remodeled and its structure is supposed to have been designed in the Eiffel School in Paris. Total distance of the tour: 11 blocks. |