Uruguay Travel News

The luxury hotel will be part of a restored historic building featuring a casino, spa, and meeting space Sofitel has announced plans to manage its first hotel in Uruguay, Sofitel Montevideo Casino Carrasco and Spa.

Date : Sun, 6 Dec 2009 23:21:23 PST Armenia was presented as eco-tourism destination in Buenos Aires and Montevideo 06.12.2009 17:34 GMT+04:00 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Capacity crowds turned out at the Union General Armenia de Beneficencia headquarters in the capitals of Argentina and Uruguay to hear author-photographers Matthew Karanian and Robert ...

President elect Jose Pepe Mujica said that Uruguay has a strategic position in the region with a great future and he conceives the country not as a 'wedge' but as a 'bridge'. Mujica made the statements on Friday during a forum with local businessmen and representatives of foreign corporations with interests in Uruguay.

Sofitel Luxury Hotels has this week announced a new management contract with Carrasco Nobile S/A, a consortium managed by the Spanish group Codere, to manage the Casino Carrasco Hotel in Montevideo which will become the Sofitel Montevideo Casino Carrasco and Spa.

Birds scatter as the space shuttle Atlantis touches down on Kennedy Space Center's Runway 33 on after completing an 11-day mission to the international space station.

Did Nazi doctor Josef Mengele carry on his sadistic science decades after World War II? Recent reports have held up a remote Brazilian town - filled with blonde, blue-eyed twins - as evidence of Mengele's postwar attempts to add to the ranks of an Aryan "master race." But research announced today says Candido Godoi's "Nazi twins" are nothing more ...

Another new project to share today, this time from the office of Rafael Vinoly Architects.

Franklin Chang Diaz has great aspirations for his rocket: a mail-carrier for outer space, a garbage truck for orbital debris and, the ultimate goal, a shuttle to Mars.

Brazilian President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva said Friday after meeting the Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that peace in Middle East depends on establishing a Palestinian state.

Although Costa Rica fought back to tie 1-1 against Uruguay in World Cup qualifying play, it wasn't enough to continue on to South Africa in 2010.

Sail out of Buenos Aires over Christmas, with stops in Rio and Punta del Este. Tuesday, November 10, 2009 The Real Deal Eight nights in an ocean-view cabin aboard the 14-deck Costa Victoria , round-trip from Buenos Aires, Argentina, with stops in Brazil at Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro, and Ilhabela, and in Uruguay at Punta del Este; all meals and ...

Ms. Ironilda Terezinha Baldissera Pozzebon, Mr. Danclar Jesus Rossato, Ms. Haydee Careiro dos Santos along with interpreters Mr.

Patrick Dineen Published on Friday, Nov. 06, 2009 12:27PM EST Last updated on Friday, Nov.

Media Credit: Photo courtesy of Cecilia de Torres, Ltd. Lidya Buzio's earthenware dishes often include colorful depictions of urban street scenery.

Brazil's Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved Venezuela's request to join the South American trade bloc Mercosur.

Montevideo, Oct 27 The Uruguayan ministry of tourism reported on Tuesday that it expects to reach 195 cruises in the season, which is a growth of 15 percent regard last season.

To help answer your question, I contacted Seth Kugel, who has written often about Brazil for the Travel section, including this Sunday's cover article on Minas Gerais and a " 36 Hours in Rio de Janeiro " , as well as a piece three years ago about beaches near Paraty, " A Beach Scene? Just Up the Coast " . He, in turn, reached out to Brazilian ...

Pieter Stragier, Franoise Portaels, Deborah Gascoyne-Binzi, Timothy Collyns, Sebastian Lucas, and Damian Mawer Author affiliations: St.

When we think about where to go on our vacations we usually think of Mexico, Hawaii, Europe and the Caribbean.

A 92-year-old woman was caught with over 9 pounds of cocaine strapped to her body after arriving in Spain on a flight from Brazil, authorities said.