City overview
Montevideo is South America's most unhurried capital: a low, walkable city wrapped by 22 kilometres of Rambla, where art deco towers, cobbled Ciudad Vieja streets and wide river beaches sit within a few minutes of each other. It is relaxed, safe by regional standards and refreshingly uncrowded. Uruguay's Jewish life is concentrated almost entirely here, clustered in the leafy seaside neighbourhoods of Pocitos and Punta Carretas, where the Chabad House, the Sephardi congregation and the Yavne campus all sit within walking distance of one another and of most kosher dining.
Mercado del Puerto
Montevideo · Free to enter
The 1868 iron market hall by the port, now a cathedral of wood-fired parrilla grills and one of the city's defining sights.
Time needed
1 hour to walk through
Hours
Open daily 10:00 AM–6:00 PM
Tips
Stalls inside the hall serve lunch only, while those around the outside serve lunch and dinner, and the market trades every day of the week. The ironwork was shipped in from Liverpool and raised in 1868. Worth seeing for the building, the buskers and the atmosphere even if you are not eating: the grills here are not kosher. Saturdays are the liveliest. Watch belongings in the surrounding streets after dark.
Phone
+598 2916 8410Address
Piedras 237, MontevideoNeighborhood
Ciudad Vieja
Activity providers
Kosher map of Montevideo
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