La Blanqueada
Barrio in Montevideo Department, Uruguay
34°53′11″S 56°9′14″W / 34.88639°S 56.15389°W / -34.88639; -56.15389La Blanqueada is a barrio (neighbourhood or district) in Uruguay's capital Montevideo.
Location
It borders Tres Cruces to the west, Larrañaga to the northwest, Unión to the northeast and Parque Batlle to the south. It is home to the Military Hospital.
Several main avenues border and cross this barrio: 8 de Octubre Avenue, Italia Avenue, Dr. Luis Alberto de Herrera Avenue and Centenario Avenue.
According to the historian Orestes Araújo, the name of this neighbourhood (derived from blanco, Spanish for "white") was given by an old grocery store all in white.
Places of worship
- Parish Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, known also as the Italian Catholic Mission (Roman Catholic, Scalabrinians)[1][2]
- Nuestro Salvador, a small Lutheran Church, is also present on Avenida 8 de Octubre.
See also
- Barrios of Montevideo
References
External links
- Revista Raices / Historia del barrio La Blanqueada
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Barrios of Montevideo
- Ciudad Vieja
- Centro
- Barrio Sur
- Aguada
- Villa Muñoz
- Cordón
- Palermo
- Parque Rodó
- Tres Cruces
- La Comercial
- Larrañaga
- La Blanqueada
- Parque Batlle–Villa Dolores
- Pocitos
- Punta Carretas
- Unión
- Buceo
- Malvín
- Malvín Norte
- Las Canteras
- Punta Gorda
- Carrasco
- Carrasco Norte
- Bañados de Carrasco
- Flor de Maroñas
- Maroñas–Parque Guaraní
- Villa Española
- Ituzaingó
- Pérez Castellanos
- Mercado Modelo–Bolívar
- Brazo Oriental
- Jacinto Vera
- La Figurita
- Reducto
- Capurro–Bella Vista
- Prado–Nueva Savona
- Atahualpa
- Aires Puros
- Paso de las Duranas
- Belvedere
- La Teja
- Tres Ombúes–Pueblo Victoria
- Villa del Cerro
- Casabó–Pajas Blancas
- La Paloma–Tomkinson
- Paso de la Arena–Los Bulevares–Santiago Vázquez
- Nuevo París
- Conciliación
- Sayago
- Peñarol–Lavalleja
- Colón Centro y Noroeste
- Lezica–Melilla
- Colón Sudeste–Abayubá
- Manga–Toledo Chico
- Casavalle
- Cerrito de la Victoria
- Las Acacias
- Jardines del Hipódromo
- Piedras Blancas
- Manga
- Punta de Rieles–Bella Italia
- Villa García–Manga Rural
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