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Colonia del Sacramento

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74 reviews of Colonia del Sacramento

Signs of Life

It is winter in Colonia.

The Sycamore trees stand naked: their bare branches reach into the air like flesh-less fingers.

The crooked blue table-clothed tables stay quiet: the finely-wrapped cutlery rolls onto the cobblestoned ground.

Hotel doors are shut. Huge rows of stacked wood rest along the white-washed walls.

The streets are empty. A wooden carriage has been abandoned.

A few antique cars rest beside low-lying colonial home whose doors remain closed. One car has been transformed into a garden: it is a lovely mélange of the abiotic and the biotic, of the living and the dead.


The wind blows in from the Rio de Plata where a few gliding sail boats forefront the setting sun enveloping the horizon in layers of light.

Buenos Aires and its checkerboard-layout is 50 km away. Colonia’s design is organic, unpredictable and dynamic. Its curves reflects its crooked past.

Founded by the Portuguese in 1680, the town operated as a key smuggling center ferrying in contraband goods from the non-Spanish empires. The Spanish captured the town in 1762 and liberalized its trade policies in 1777.

None of this interests me at the moment.

I am enraptured by a scene along the cobbled Calle de los Suspiros. A series of pink and yellow adobe houses connect to one another; their paint is thinning. Lanterns hang just above the stucco-roofs which the fracturing light hits with a ferocious intensity. The street is old. A green shrub fronts each door. The houses sound empty. They weather history. They bleed beauty. They emanate energy.

We pass one final street. I stop in front of an adobe home with a façade of protruding brick and stone. It has a wooden door and iron-barred window. Behind the bars, three green plants collect sunlight; a lantern stays dark above the door. On the pavement, directly in front of the house, there is a pink and white motor scooter. It appears to be a child’s scooter.

There is something impeccable about the scene. Somehow it beautifully encapsulates my brief time in Colonia.

Everywhere there is evidence of life.
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Colonia del Sacramento

Many people pass through Buenos Aires, Argentina by day. These travelers tend to lose a very important part of the spirit of the Colony's restaurants with its tables on lanter-lit cobblestone streets, live musicians and people dancing between cars, in the light of the moon and in the lighthouse lit background.

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The Old Colony of Sacramento

The old Colonia del Sacramento has a path that's of Portuguese origin. It's a very nice area that's right in the middle of Cologne. The thick stone walls of the homes are supportive, the tile roofs are sturdy, the interior's ceramic floors and stone exteriors are definitely the most characteristic and impressive things in the area. Although there are still some buildings such as Viceroy's House calls, home to Admiral Brown (which is now the municipal museum), Mitre House, Convent of St. Francis Xavier, Church of the Blessed Sacrament, the old walls, part of the city gate and several homes. I highly

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