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.
Museo del Carnaval
Montevideo · Charged at the door
Costumes, drums and photographs from the longest carnival season in the world and from Montevideo's candombe tradition.
Time needed
1 hour
Hours
Wednesday-Sunday 11:00 AM-5:00 PM
Tips
Uruguay's carnival runs some forty days, longer than anywhere else. The candombe drumming rooms explain a tradition carried from West Africa and still played through the streets of Barrio Sur and Palermo on Sunday evenings.
Phone
+598 2916 5493Neighborhood
Ciudad Vieja
Activity providers
Kosher map of Montevideo
Pick a place on the map or search an address or hotel to see what is kosher around it.