The ten-meter-high market hall, which opened on 10 October 1868, is home to numerous shops and restaurants and has a floor area of 1687 m².

It is worth a visit.

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Torsten E.

March 30, 2023

Delicious asado, but make sure that you order a grill setting lower, otherwise there will be shoe soles

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Andi

January 12, 2025

In 1865, the enterprising businessman Pedro Sáenz de Zumarán founded a financial company that acquired the land in Montevideo Bay with the aim of building a transshipment point. The English engineer R. H. Mesures was hired without further ado to build an iron structure that was unique in South America at the time. It was a time when this type of architecture was causing a sensation in Europe with spectacular buildings such as the Eiffel Tower. In South America, there was neither the know-how nor the capacity to build such an iron temple. So the contract was quickly awarded to the Union Foundry in Liverpool, England. After the structure had been pre-assembled in England, the craftsmen were brought across the Atlantic to erect the steel framework. On October 10, 1868, after three years of construction, the Mercado del Puerto Montevideo was opened to the applause of numerous curious onlookers. Source and further information: uruguay-erleben.de/mercado-del-puerto-montevideo-das-gastronomische-kulturjuwel-in-uruguay

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