A Touch Of Nostalgia
by Venetia Featherstone-Witty
Title
A Touch Of Nostalgia
Artist
Venetia Featherstone-Witty
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
I recently made a visit to Colonia del Sacramento, an old port city in Uruguay.Colonia del Sacramento, formerly the Portuguese Colonia Sacramento, is a city in southwestern Uruguay, by the Rio de la Plata, facing Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is one of the oldest towns in Uruguay and capital of the Colonia Department. It has a population of around 27,000.It is renowned for its historic quarter, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. These cars are in the historic part of the old city which is quiet and charming.Founded in 1680 by Portugal as Colonia do Sacramento, the colony was later disputed by the Spanish who settled on the opposite bank of the river at Buenos Aires. The colony was conquered by Jose de Garro in 1680, but returned to Portugal the next year. It was conquered again by the Spanish in March 1705 after a siege of five months, but given back in the Treaty of Utrecht. Another attack during the Spanish-Portuguese War, 1735-1737, failed.
It kept changing hands from crown to crown due to treaties such as the Treaty of Madrid in 1750 and the Treaty of San Ildefonso in 1777, until it remained with the Spanish. It then transferred to Portuguese control again, being later incorporated into Brazil after 1816, when the entire Banda Oriental (Uruguay) was seized by the government of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves and renamed the Cisplatina province.
On 10 January 1809, before the independence of Uruguay, it was designated as a "Villa" (town) and has since been elevated to the status of "Ciudad" (city).
Since independence, Colonia del Sacramento has expanded to the north and east, but the original Barrio Historico (historic quarter) retains its irregular, terrain-fitting street plan built by the Portuguese, contrasting with the wider, orthogonal streets in the newer Spanish area.
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February 25th, 2016
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