Fray Bentos

The UNESCO World Heritage listing "Fray Bentos Cultural Industrial Landscape" comprises the premises of the former Liebig's Extract of Meat Company, founded in 1863. From 1899 onwards the Anglo Meat Packing Plant functioned here. In its heyday it was one of the largest industrial plants in all of South America and attracted many of the region's European immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Closed in 1979, the area now includes this extensive museum of the plant's history. The displays are mostly in Spanish, but a few are in English.

The area east of the industrial complex is where the workers lived. Together with the industrial complex, it formed a particularly large company town.

House built starting in 1868. Inhabited by Liebig's managers when the plant was operating.

A nature area overlooking the river that is also of historic value. Celebrations of the end of the sugar harvest were once held here. Tent camps were set up, and people of all classes of society would participate in the festivities, including from neighboring cities. The space is now available for public use.

The company's old port (or what's left of it). The two original docks used by the Anglo company were joined into one. Later damaged by a fire and a flood, it was never fully repaired and is now a crumbling fragment of the former structure. It has two old rusted cranes and is pretty close to the museum.

Photo exhibition along a walkway in the industrial plant, with interesting black-and-white photos of the plant in its heyday.

Art museum, mostly featuring the work of the Uruguayan painter Luis Alberto Solari, who was born in Fray Bentos. His signature theme is figures with human-looking bodies but animal heads or masks. In addition to a substantial collection of his work, the museum has two rooms of paintings by other Uruguayan artists.

A church, financed by Liebig's, that includes a clock imported from France.