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1,154 World Heritage Sites later, the Unesco title threatens to become meaningless…

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Located on the banks of the Uruguay River and named after a 17th-Century hermit, the sleepy town of Fray Bentos produced one of the most influential food brands of the 20th Century.

Source: How a Uruguayan town revolutionised the way we eat

The former factory is now a UNESCO world heritage site.

Source: How a Uruguayan Meat Factory Became Iconic Worldwide

Uruguay – Fray Bentos Industrial Landscape

An Uruguay vacation offers visitors a varied, interesting, and enjoyable experience… as small as this South American country is.

Let’s place Uruguay geographically. It lies just south of Brazil and east of Argentina. I personally visited Uruguay by making it an extension on a trip to Argentina. I simply boarded a hydrofoil in Buenos Aires and landed in the north of the country at the old city of Colonia del Sacramento (journey time approximately 1 hour), then headed south on a comfortable inter-city bus to the capital, Montevideo (journey time 2.5 hours approximately), followed by another bus ride further south to the outstanding resort of Punta del Este (journey time 2 hours approximately). I then returned by bus to Montevideo and took another hydrofoil back to Buenos Aires (journey time 2 hours approximately). From this, you can see the country is fairly compact. There are alternatives to these routes. On an Uruguay vacation, you can travel all the way by bus to Colonia del Sacramento and you can fly from both Montevideo and Punta del Este to Buenos Aires.

Source: An Uruguay Vacation Has So Much to Offer for a Small Country | Goway

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UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee approved the inscription of four cultural sites on the World Heritage List: Fray Bentos Cultural-Industrial Landscape in Uruguay; Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining in Japan, Ephesus in Turkey and Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque Hydraulic System in Mexico. The Committee also approved the extension of Spain’s Routes of Santiago de Compostela with the addition of the “Camino Francés and Routes of Northern Spain”.

Source: Ex-Anglo abattoir complex in Fray Bentos joins Unesco’s World Heritage List