Centro, Montevideo

**Centro** is the inner ceety *[[barrio]]* (neebourheid or destrict) o Montevideo, Uruguay. Its main avenue is 18 de Julio Avenue. It is delimitit bi La Paz Str. tae the North, Florida Str. (North o 18 de julio Av.) an Andes Str. (Sooth o 18 de Julio Av.) tae the Wast, Canelones Str. tae the Sooth an Barrios Amorin Str. tae the East. 

## History
Acause o the militar oreegins o Montevideo, it haed been forbidden tae build onything permanent in the aurie ootside the waws o the ceety up tae the time that Uruguay gained unthirldom. That aurie wis cried Campo de Marte or *ejido* (common). Aroond 1750, the colonial *Gobernación Política y Militar de Montevideo* traced the limits o the forbidden aurie at "a canonbaw's reach" frae the ceety's fortifications bi a line or "*cordón*". Eventually, Cordón became the name o the aurie ootside the Campo de Marte.

In 1829, fower years efter the declaration o unthirldom, the Naitional Assembly decidit tae pull doun the fortifications o the Ciudad Vieja an extend the ceety tae fuirm the "Ciudad Nueva". At the time, the population o Montevideo wis aroond 14,000. The plans for some addeetional 160 ceety blocks wur drawn bi militar engineer Don José María Reyes. That extension is the actual barrio o Centro. The plans includit a new square, which in 1840 teuk on the name Plaza Cagancha, while the names o the streets wur gien bi Andrés Lamas frae 1843 on. The development o this aurie wis vera slow due tae the "Guerra Grande" o 1839-1852. In 1867 a pillar wi the Statue o Peace (La Paz) wis erectit in the centre o Plaza Cagancha.


## Squares an biggins
Alang 18 de Julio Avenue thare are twa central an frequentit squares: Plaza Fabini, commonly cried Plaza del Entrevero acause o the sculptur o its main foontain, cried "The Entrevero", bi José Belloni, an Plaza Cagancha, commonly cried Plaza Libertad. The umwhile is maistly uised as a relaxation aurie an the latter is maistly a place whaur craftsmen an ither smaw vendors exhibit their wirk an products for sale.

Ane o the maist airchitecturally notable biggins o the Centro, is the Palacio Lapido, designed bi Juan Aubriot an built in 1933, a Naitional Heritage Steid syne 1989. Ither Naitional Heritage Steids o the Centro are the Jockey Club, the Sala Zitarrosa on Plaza Fabini, the Ateneo de Montevideo an the Palacio Piria (seat o the Supreme Court) on Plaza Cagancha, the Palacio Santos (seat o the Uruguayan Meenistry o Foreign Affairs) an the Mercado de la Ambundancia. The Centro is hame tae the Palacio Municipal an aw, the biggin o the Ceety Haw, wi a wide public aurie in front o it featurin a impressive copy o Michaelangelo's David.

## Places o wirship
Several temples hae been built in this important neebourheid.
* St. Michael Garicoits Kirk, popularly kent as "Iglesia de los Vascos" (Roman Catholic, Betharram Fathers)
* Kirk o St. Joseph an St. Maximilian Kolbe, kent as "Conventuales" an aw (Roman Catholic, Conventual Franciscans)
* Central Methodist Kirk (Methodist) 
* Uruguayan Jewish Commonty (Synagogue)
* New Jewish Congregation (Conservative synagogue)
* Vaad Ha'ir (Synagogue)
* Uruguay Islamic Center (Muslim) 

## Street map an main attractions

## See an aw
*Barrios o Montevideo

## Notes

## Freemit airtins

* Intendencia de Montevideo / Useful data / Centro 
* Intendencia de Montevideo / Historia del Centro