Centro, Montevideo

Centro
Centro
	Barrio
	The Edificio Rex an the El Entrevero foontain in Plaza Fabini
	Location o Centro in Montevideo
	Coordinates: 34°54′13″S 56°11′18″W / 34.90361°S 56.18833°WCoordinates: 34°54′13″S 56°11′18″W / 34.90361°S 56.18833°W
Kintra	Uruguay
Depairtment	Montevideo Depairtment
Ceety	Montevideo

Centro is the inner ceety barrio (neebourheid or destrict) o Montevideo, Uruguay. Its main avenue is 18 de Julio Avenue. It is delimitit bi La Paz Str. tae the North, Florida Str. (North o 18 de julio Av.) an Andes Str. (Sooth o 18 de Julio Av.) tae the Wast, Canelones Str. tae the Sooth an Barrios Amorin Str. tae the East.

History

Acause o the militar oreegins o Montevideo, it haed been forbidden tae build onything permanent in the aurie ootside the waws o the ceety up tae the time that Uruguay gained unthirldom. That aurie wis cried Campo de Marte or ejido (common). Aroond 1750, the colonial Gobernación Política y Militar de Montevideo traced the limits o the forbidden aurie at "a canonbaw's reach" frae the ceety's fortifications bi a line or "cordón". Eventually, Cordón became the name o the aurie ootside the Campo de Marte.^[1]

In 1829, fower years efter the declaration o unthirldom, the Naitional Assembly decidit tae pull doun the fortifications o the Ciudad Vieja an extend the ceety tae fuirm the "Ciudad Nueva". At the time, the population o Montevideo wis aroond 14,000. The plans for some addeetional 160 ceety blocks wur drawn bi militar engineer Don José María Reyes. That extension is the actual barrio o Centro. The plans includit a new square, which in 1840 teuk on the name Plaza Cagancha, while the names o the streets wur gien bi Andrés Lamas frae 1843 on. The development o this aurie wis vera slow due tae the "Guerra Grande" o 1839-1852. In 1867 a pillar wi the Statue o Peace (La Paz) wis erectit in the centre o Plaza Cagancha.

Squares an biggins

Alang 18 de Julio Avenue thare are twa central an frequentit squares: Plaza Fabini, commonly cried Plaza del Entrevero acause o the sculptur o its main foontain, cried "The Entrevero", bi José Belloni, an Plaza Cagancha, commonly cried Plaza Libertad. The umwhile is maistly uised as a relaxation aurie an the latter is maistly a place whaur craftsmen an ither smaw vendors exhibit their wirk an products for sale.

Ane o the maist airchitecturally notable biggins o the Centro, is the Palacio Lapido, designed bi Juan Aubriot an built in 1933, a Naitional Heritage Steid syne 1989.^[2] Ither Naitional Heritage Steids o the Centro are the Jockey Club, the Sala Zitarrosa on Plaza Fabini, the Ateneo de Montevideo an the Palacio Piria (seat o the Supreme Court) on Plaza Cagancha, the Palacio Santos (seat o the Uruguayan Meenistry o Foreign Affairs) an the Mercado de la Ambundancia. The Centro is hame tae the Palacio Municipal an aw, the biggin o the Ceety Haw, wi a wide public aurie in front o it featurin a impressive copy o Michaelangelo's David.

Places o wirship

Several temples hae been built in this important neebourheid.

St. Michael Garicoits Kirk, popularly kent as "Iglesia de los Vascos" (Roman Catholic, Betharram Fathers)
Kirk o St. Joseph an St. Maximilian Kolbe, kent as "Conventuales" an aw (Roman Catholic, Conventual Franciscans)
Central Methodist Kirk (Methodist)
Uruguayan Jewish Commonty (Synagogue)
New Jewish Congregation (Conservative synagogue)
Vaad Ha'ir (Synagogue)
Uruguay Islamic Center (Muslim)

Street map an main attractions

Edificio Lapido (Palacio de la Tribuna Popular)
Palacio Brazil
Plaza Fabini: Edificio Rex y Sala Zitarrosa, Edificio London Paris, Subte Municipal
Plaza Cagancha: Edificio Libertad, Palacio Piria, Palacio Montero, Museo Pedagógico, Ateneo de Montevideo, Mercado de los Artesanos, Palacio Chiarino
Mercado de la Abundancia (Restaurants an shows)
Palacio Municipal (Ceety Haw): Michaelangelo's David (replica), Museo de Historia del Arte, Photographic Airchive o Montevideo
SODRE (Symphonic Orchestra, Ballet)
ANCAP Biggin