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Biggest church in Uruguay  
   

Biggest church in Uruguay

This is the biggest church in Uruguay and it is a huge memorial to a bunch of really important people in Uruguayan history. The Catholic church played a big role in bringing education and freedom to Uruguay and this church is very much evidence of that.
Salto & Montevideo

June 14th 2007
We went to Salto, Uruguay next which was a really small city. We took a night bus there only it was the most random trip ever. We took a bus to the middle of nowhere Argentina and had cabs waiting on the side of the road for us. The cabs then drove us to Salto and over the border. It was nice in Salto but fairly boring. We went to the thermal baths there which was nice. They were so warm which wa ... read more
South America » Uruguay

Uruguayan Flag A violent Marxist urban guerrilla movement, the Tupamaros, launched in the late 1960s, led Uruguay's president to agree to military control of his administration in 1973. By yearend, the rebels had been crushed, but the military continued to expand i... ... read more
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