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Fort of  San Miguel

" Fortress and  Forts "

If you are an adventurer at heart ,you can visit other similarly amazing places that are very close to La Barra de Chuy such as

"La Fortaleza de Santa Teresa "or "El Fuerte de San Miguel".

It is like going back in time to 1734, when Uruguay was just an echo of cannons in the wars among Portuguese, English, Spanish, Uruguayans and Native people. The "Fuerte de San Miguel", located almost on the border with Brazil, witnessed all this. Located to 50 km to the north of the Fortaleza de Santa Teresa” , at the west ,on the Route 19 Cnel Lorenzo Latorrehacia near de small city of “18 de Julio”  ,

The “ Fuerte de San Miguel”, although smaller than the “Fortaleza de Santa Teresa”, it is more ancient and also it possesses an incomparable delight. In 1734, the Spanish began the construction, raising it in precarious form with mud and stones, but three years later the Portuguese took it. It is provide with the only lasting drawbridge in the “Rio de la Plata”, being extraordinary that still supports his good functioning....

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