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.
Playa Pocitos
Montevideo · Free
The two-kilometre crescent of soft sand in front of the Pocitos apartment towers, the city's main urban beach.
Time needed
2 hours
Hours
Open daily 24 hours
Tips
Calm, shallow river water rather than surf, with volleyball nets up through the summer. Closest beach to the Pocitos hotels and the kosher cafes, and the large MONTEVIDEO letters at the western end are the city's standard photograph.
Neighborhood
Pocitos
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.