Cool architecture!

The Full Monte..video/City Slickers

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March 6th 2008
Montevideo is a pretty cool city as the capitals we have seen so far go. Not too big, not too small...just right. (especially for you Goldilocks and the 3 Bears lovers). We head to our hostel which as it turns out is pretty cool, a large pool table and even larger bottles of beer, which is just as well really as the hostel, much like the rest of the city is pretty quiet! We spend the first n ... read more

South America » Uruguay » District of Montevideo » Montevideo

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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