Visita a Punta del Este con Casapueblo y almuerzo de Día Completo

Departure in the morning to visit the most glamorous and important spa in South America. Taking the inter-resort route heading east, we cross the department of Canelones, which has more than 60 km of coastline and more than 30 resorts, as wellplace chosen for its proximity to Montevideo to live all year round.

Our first stop is Piriápolis "the City of the Sun" founded in 1890 by Francisco Piria, a Uruguayan businessman, alchemist, famous for developing the spa, its castle and its "belle epoque" style buildings such as the Argentino Hotel, which at its inauguration in 1930, was considered the largest in South America facing the sea.
We continue along the Rambla de los Argentinos designed in the best European style which curves around the bay with its beach, commercial and nightlife area.
Continuing we arrive at its port and its chairlifts. We climb until we reach the panoramic view of Cerro San Antonio at 130 meters high.

We go out to the route which leads us to discover the charm of Punta Ballena and Casapueblo, house and atelier of the artist Carlos Paez Vilaro. We will give time to visit and enjoy its paintings, sculptures and different views of the house.

Casapueblo es una edificación construida por el artista uruguayo Carlos Páez Vilaró ubicada en Punta Ballena, a 13 km de Punta del Este, Uruguay. Inicialmente fue casa de veraneo y taller del artista, incluye en sus instalaciones un museo, una galería de arte,
una cafetería y un hotel. Fue residencia permanente de su creador, donde trabajaba y donde pasó allí hasta su deceso Casapueblo se comenzó a construir en 1958 alrededor de un casilla de madera hecha con tablones encontrados en la costa, llamada La
Pionera, por Carlos Páez Vilaró. Dicha casilla constituyó su primer atelier. Casapueblo fue diseñada con un estilo que puede equipararse con las casas de la costa mediterránea de Santorini pero el artista solía hacer referencia al nido del hornero al referirse a este tipo de construcción. Esta construcción, que demoró 36 años en completarse, 6 tiene trece pisos con terrazas que permiten tener una vista óptima de la puesta del sol sobre las aguas del océano Atlántico. Alberga un homenaje a Carlos Miguel, hijo del artista y uno de los dieciséis uruguayos sobrevivientes del accidente aéreo del vuelo 571 de la Fuerza Aérea Uruguaya, que se estrelló en los Andes el 13 de octubre de 1972.

We enter Punta del Este through Playa Mansa from where you will see the Gorriti Island and the Hotel Enjoy ex Hotel Conrad. We continue along Pedragosa Sierra Avenue until we reach the undulating bridge of La Barra de Maldonado.
We continue through Playa Brava where you can see its beautiful neighborhoods, its mansions, the El Torreón building with its rotating panoramic view, La Mano sculpture, icon of the spa. We will stop for our free time, lunch and personal activities.

Then we go through part of the Peninsula where everything happens, streets main, commercial, gastronomic, nocturnal and entertainment. We continue by the meekto the marina. We can see the lighthouse built in 1860 and the most important church in the resort, Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria. The Isla de Lobos nature reserve with sea lions from the western hemisphere in Punta de la Salina, its rocky part that separates and joins the Río de la Plata with the Atlantic Ocean. Plazoleta Great Britain is named after the English ship Ajax, which faced the Graf Spee in the historic battle of 1939 in the Río de la Plata. Return to hotels in the city center (or nearest point) and end of services.