Welcome everyone to this blog of places to visit. The idea behind this blog, and its owner (myself), is to provide as many data as I can possibly give about varied and different places around the globe, or most of it.
I'll plan on making reviews not just about places to visit, but books, movies, music, things to do. There is a whole world of things out there and at least I can take a look at them. Please do not be misled by my blog title phrase; do not read the word "vacation" as "time when you are not working and are able to visit places you won't normally or regularly visit". Rather, we'll talk about places or locations which are worth visiting or having in that "wish list" of places to visit some day in our lifetime.
I won't be moving as fast as in a sport car going through town during summer holidays at the seashore, nor as slow as a snail going from a grass blade to another in my backyard. I'll be just trying to get by and produce as many reviews as my every day tasks allow. I can promise to do my very best.
So, write to you all on my next post.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Monday, July 12, 2010
First visit: Colonia, Uruguay.
The first post will be related to the picture you can all see behind the blog title. That picture of a quiet cobble-paved street you see was taken in Colonia del Sacramento, a town in the Republic of Uruguay, in South America. The Historic Quarter in that town of Colonia was declared a World Heritage Site in 1995. This quarter has many 17th-century buildings, including houses (now turned into museums), churches, and even a lighthouse which is also a museum. The place changed hands from the Portugueses to Spaniards and viceversa several times during the 18th century, until it definitely stayed under Uruguayan flag in the early 19th century.
This town of some 30,000 inhabitants in south-west Uruguay is visited by lots of tourists every year, people who want to see for themselves the old-time colonial marvels this place has to show and offer them. The town has flourished since the colony, and with its river port on the Río de la Plata, its historic site and modern buildings and streets on the new extended part of town it has something to present to almost everyone. It can even boast of a bullring built in 1910 and that hosted up to 8 bullfights until that activity was prohibited in Uruguay in 1912. Now that bullring is just there for a nice souvenir picture with your family. Nonetheless, it was built there and there it is, challenging time and ruin.
This town of some 30,000 inhabitants in south-west Uruguay is visited by lots of tourists every year, people who want to see for themselves the old-time colonial marvels this place has to show and offer them. The town has flourished since the colony, and with its river port on the Río de la Plata, its historic site and modern buildings and streets on the new extended part of town it has something to present to almost everyone. It can even boast of a bullring built in 1910 and that hosted up to 8 bullfights until that activity was prohibited in Uruguay in 1912. Now that bullring is just there for a nice souvenir picture with your family. Nonetheless, it was built there and there it is, challenging time and ruin.
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