Paysandú

Paysandú Capital

Paysandú

Capital of the Paysandú department, on the banks of the Uruguay River, opposite the Argentine city of Colón. The center has the basilica of Nuestra Señora del Rosario y San Benito de Palermo and the 19th-century Teatro Florencio Sánchez; seven blocks from the square is the Monumento a Perpetuidad, the old cemetery with Italian sculptures. To the north are the Termas de Guaviyú and the Meseta de Artigas. It is the city of the chajá and the Semana de la Cerveza.