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Punta Del Este
Punta del Este () is a seaside city and peninsula on the Atlantic Coast in the Maldonado Department of southeastern Uruguay. Starting as a small town, Punta del Este grew to become a resort for the Latin and North American jet set and tourists. The city has been called "The Hamptons of South America", as well as "The Monaco of the South", "The Miami Beach of South America", "The Pearl of the Atlantic", and "The St. Tropez of South America". Many famous people have visited, resided, or acquired vacation properties in Punta del Este and its surroundings. Punta del Este hosted the Whitbread Around the World yacht races from 1985 to 1994 and participated with its own yacht 'Uruguay Natural'. Punta del Este also hosted the 1967 American Summit attended by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson, and the beginning of the Uruguay Round of international trade negotiations in 1986 that led to the creation of the World Trade Organization in 1994. The city hosted the 2014 Formula E Championship an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Mano De Punta Del Este
''La Mano'' (''The Hand'') is a sculpture in Punta del Este by Chilean artist Mario Irarrázabal. (Chilean newspaper, in Spanish) It depicts five human fingers partially emerging from sand and is located on Parada 1 at Brava Beach in Punta del Este, a popular tourist town in Uruguay. It is also known as either ''Los Dedos'' (''The Fingers''), or ''Hombre emergiendo a la vida'' (''Man Emerging into Life''). In English, its popular name is ''The Hand''. It is a famous sculpture - Puntadeleste.com (Uruguayan website, in Spanish) that has become a symbol for Punta del Este since its completion in February 1982 P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyndon Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson (; August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States, serving from 1963 to 1969. He became president after assassination of John F. Kennedy, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, under whom he had served as the 37th Vice President of the United States, vice president from 1961 to 1963. A Southern Democrat, Johnson previously represented Texas in United States Congress, Congress for over 23 years, first as a U.S. representative from 1937 to 1949, and then as a U.S. senator from Texas, U.S. senator from 1949 to 1961. Born in Stonewall, Texas, Johnson worked as a teacher and a congressional aide before winning election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1937. In 1948, he was controversially declared the winner in the Democratic primary for the 1948 United States Senate election in Texas, U.S. Senate election in Texas before winning the general election. He became Party leaders of the United States Senate, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laguna Garzon Bridge
Laguna (Italian and Spanish word for lagoon), is a Spanish, Italian, and Polish surname. It may also refer to: People * Andrés Laguna (1499–1559), Spanish physician, pharmacologist, and botanist * Benjamín Máximo Laguna y Villanueva (1822–1902), Spanish forester, entomologist and botanist of Spanish and Philippine flora * Theodore de Laguna (1876–1930), American philosopher, taught at Bryn Mawr College and in the Philippines, early feminist. * Aleksander Łaguna (7/10/1894 – 9/10/1934) – Major pilot of the Polish Army, knight of the Virtuti Militari * Mikołaj Łaguna (14/06/1890–1940) – Polish lieutenant, murdered in Katyn * Piotr Łaguna (1905–1941), major of the Polish Army, pilot * Stosław (Klemens Stanisław) Łaguna, (23/02/1833-28/04/1900), professor of Polish Law at the University of Saint Petersburg, January Uprising participant * Stanisław Ignacy Łaguna (18 January 1878-1 August 1943) – Polish engineer, councilor of the Lviv City Council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael Viñoly
Rafael Viñoly Beceiro (1 June 1944 – 2 March 2023) was an Uruguayan-born architect based in New York. He was the principal of Rafael Viñoly Architects, which he founded in 1983. The firm has offices in New York City, Palo Alto, London, Manchester, Abu Dhabi, and Buenos Aires. Viñoly designed landmark buildings internationally. Viñoly rose to international prominence with his Tokyo International Forum. Reviewing the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition of models and drawings for the building while it was still under construction, the then ''New York Times'' architecture critic Herbert Muschamp hailed Viñoly's design as "a monument to the idea of openness" that "revives faith in architecture as an instrument of intellectual clarity". At the same time, some of his works have been widely panned, including one of his high-profile designs, the so-called " Walkie-Talkie," which detractors dubbed the "Walkie Scorchy." It was named this after it focused light from the sun to a po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casapueblo
Casapueblo is a building constructed by the Uruguayan artist Carlos Páez Vilaró. It is located in Punta Ballena, from Punta del Este, Uruguay. Initially, it was the artist's summer home and workshop, and includes a museum, an art gallery, a cafeteria and a hotel in its facilities. It was the permanent residence of its creator, who worked and spent his last days there. History Casapueblo began to be built in 1958 around a wooden box made with planks found on the coast, called ''La Pionera'' (The Pioneer), by Carlos Páez Vilaró. This box was his first atelier. Casapueblo was designed with a style that can be compared to the houses on the Mediterranean coast of Santorini, but the artist used to refer to the Rufous hornero, hornero's nest, a typical bird of Uruguay, when referring to this type of construction. The building, which took 36 years to complete, has thirteen floors with terraces that allow an optimal views of the sunset over the waters of the Atlantic ocean. It hou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santorini
Santorini (, ), officially Thira (, ) or Thera, is a Greek island in the southern Aegean Sea, about southeast from the mainland. It is the largest island of a small, circular archipelago formed by the Santorini caldera. It is the southernmost member of the Cyclades group of islands, with an area of approximately and a 2021 census population of 15,480. The municipality of Santorini includes the inhabited islands of Santorini and Therasia, and the uninhabited islands of Nea Kameni, Palaia Kameni, Aspronisi, Anydros, and Christiana. The total land area is . Santorini is part of the Thira regional unit. It is the most active volcanic centre in the South Aegean Volcanic Arc. The volcanic arc is approximately long and wide. The region first became volcanically active around 3–4 million years ago, though volcanism on Thera began around 2 million years ago with the extrusion of dacitic lavas from vents around Akrotiri. One of the largest volcanic eruptions in reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arboretum Lussich
The Lussich Arboretum is an arboretum of located in the Maldonado Department of Uruguay near Punta del Este and Punta Ballena. History On 5 October 1896 Antonio Lussich bought a terrain of , which extend from "Arroyo el Potrero" to "Sierra de la Ballena" and from Rio de la Plata to Laguna del Sauce, land which at that time consisted only of sand dunes and stones. The next year ''Antonio Lussich'' started the forestry works which had as objective on one hand, to forest the dry lands in an attempt to stop the high winds that came from the ocean, and on the other, once the forest was established, to encourage birds to inhabit it. In order to do that, ''Antonio Lussich'', thanks to the enterprise of maritime rescue contracts obtained all over the world, could manage to get seeds from numerous continents. He bought seeds, plants and trees from around the world and planted them around his house. The first trees planted were ''Tamarix'', sea pines, ''Eucalyptus'' and '' Acacia tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Barra
La Barra is a resort in the Maldonado Department of southeastern Uruguay. Geography The resort is located on Route 10, south of its junction with Ruta Interbalnearia. Its west coast is on the mouth of Arroyo Maldonado, while its south coast in on the Atlantic Ocean. It lies just across San Rafael - El Placer to the west, with which they are connected with the nearby bridge Puente de Barra de Maldonado, famous for its architecture. It borders the resort El Tesoro to the northwest and to the east a neighbourhood called "Barrio San Carlos", which lies just west of the resort Manantiales. Population In 2011 La Barra had a population of 339 permanent inhabitants and 1,210 dwellings. Source: ''Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay'' Places of worship * Parish Church of Our Lady of the Rosary (Roman Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gorriti Island
Gorriti Island () is a small island near the shores of Punta del Este, Uruguay. History Discovered in 1516 by Juan Díaz de Solís Juan Díaz de Solís ( – 20 January 1516) was a 16th-century navigator and explorer. He is also said to be the first European to land on what is now modern day Uruguay. Biography His origins are disputed. One document records him as a Portugues ..., it was settled from the 18th century, when in the face of Portuguese influence it was of some military significance, and abandoned cannons are still left. Gorriti Island forms part of the Maldonado Department. National Heritage Along with Isla de Lobos, the island has been declared to be a National Heritage, attracting tourists on beaches annually. Surrounding waters are rich in wildlife both permanently and seasonally, including southern right whales, southern elephant seals and orcas chasing tunas or South American sea lions and South American fur seals. There are breeding populations of the latt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isla De Lobos
The Isla de Lobos is a small island located about southeast of Punta del Este (Uruguay) in the Atlantic Ocean. An islet lies east of the island. Since 2024 it makes up the ''Island and Islet of Lobos and their Submerged Environment National Park'' a marine protected area. Geography The island is an outcropping of rocks as a continuation of the Cuchilla Grande, in an area of the Atlantic Ocean immediately at the mouth (outer limit) of the estuary of Río de la Plata. Administratively, it falls under the jurisdiction of the department of Maldonado, although it constitutes a natural reserve. Somewhat to the northwest is the smaller Gorriti Island which is the secondmost southerly place in Uruguay. Isla de Lobos was exploited economically until 1992. Hunting the island's marine life was prohibited by law in 1991. Today it constitutes a nature reserve that is integrated into the "Coastal Islands National Park" administered by the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gastronomy
Gastronomy is the study of the relationship between Human food, food and culture, the art of preparing and serving rich or delicate and appetizing food, the cooking styles of particular regions, and the science of good eating. One who is well versed in gastronomy is called a gastronome, while a gastronomist is one who unites theory and practice in the study of gastronomy. Practical gastronomy is associated with the practice and study of the preparation, production, and service of the various foods and beverages, from countries around the world. It is related with a system and process approach, focused on recipes, techniques and cookery books. Food gastronomy is connected with food and beverages and their genesis. Technical gastronomy underpins practical gastronomy, introducing a rigorous approach to evaluation of gastronomic topics. Etymology Archestratus wrote a guide to the foods of the Mediterranean in the form of a poem called "Gastronomy", according to Chrysippus of Tyana; on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
