Prado - Nueva Savona

Location of Prado - Nueva Savona in Montevideo

Plan of Prado - Nueva Savona

Castillo Soneira

Prado - Nueva Savona is a district ( barrio ) of the Uruguayan capital Montevideo .

Location and geography

The quarter, made up of the Barrios Prado and Nueva Savona , is located in the northern part of the Montevideo department . It is surrounded by the Barrios La Teja (west), Belvedere (northwest), Paso de las Duranas (north), Aires Puros (east), Atahualpa (east), Reducto (south) and Capurro - Bella Vista (south). The district is bounded by Avenida Millán to the east and by Bulevar Artigas to the south . The area of Prado - Nueva Savona is the Municipalities municipality A and municipality C assigned.

Residents

There are currently 20,672 inhabitants there (as of 2005)

description

The quarter is characterized by its avenues and its partly upscale residential buildings built at the beginning of the 20th century. A large park stretches within the district, through which the Arroyo Miguelete runs. The Jardín Botánico Profesor Atilio Lombardo botanical garden and the Residencia Presidencial de Suárez y Reyes, the residence of the Presidents of Uruguay, are also located in the district . Other buildings to be emphasized are the church Iglesia de los Hermanos Carmelitas , the Castillo Soneira , the Casa Costemalle , the Casa Maya y Silva , the Casa quinta Eastman , the Casa quinta Alfonso Seré , the Edificio Salvo , the Hotel del Paso del Molino , the hotel del Prado and the Casa quinta Aurelio Berro , which has been classified as Monumento Histórico Nacional since 1999 and which is the seat of the Uruguay National Garden .

Prado also houses three football stadiums. These are the Parque José Nasazzi , the Parque Federico Saroldi and the Parque Alfredo V. Viera . This is where the clubs Bella Vista , River Plate Montevideo and the Montevideo Wanderers usually play their home games.

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  Casa quinta Aurelio Berro

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  Park in the Prado district

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  Sculpture by the sculptor José Belloni in the Prado district.

Web links

Commons : Prado, Nueva Savona  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map of the Uruguayan National Statistics Institute for the classification of the barrios of Montevideo (PDF; 1.6 MB), accessed on May 5, 2014
2. ↑ Information about Prado on the Intendencia de Montevideo website ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Coordinates: 34 ° 52 ′  S , 56 ° 12 ′  W