Lentas Maravillas

Colonia del Sacramento


Cozy as a friend’s home, this is an agreeable spot to kick back with tea and cookies, or savor a homemade lemonade accompanied by soup, sandwiches or goulash. Flip through an art book from owner Maggie Molnar’s personal library and enjoy the river views, either from the upstairs living room or the chairs on the grassy lawn below.

The dining room has space for up to 11 people; book ahead for groups of five people or more.


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1. Puerto Viejo

0.04 MILES

Colonia’s yacht harbor makes for a pleasant stroll.

2. Museo Indígena

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Houses Roberto Banchero’s personal collection of Charrúa stone tools, exhibits on indigenous history, and an amusing map upstairs showing how many…

3. Archivo Regional

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4. Iglesia Matríz

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Uruguay’s oldest church – begun by the Portuguese in 1680, then completely rebuilt twice under Spanish rule – is the centerpiece of pretty Plaza de Armas…

5. Centro Cultural Bastión del Carmen

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Incorporating part of the city’s historic fortifications, this theater and gallery complex adjacent to Colonia's Puerto Viejo hosts rotating art exhibits…

6. Museo del Azulejo

0.16 MILES

This dinky 17th-century stone house has a small sampling of French and Catalan tilework.

7. Museo Municipal

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Houses an eclectic collection of treasures including a whale skeleton, a re-creation of a colonial drawing room, historical timelines and a scale model of…

8. Casa Nacarello

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