21 Photos That Prove Uruguay Is Completely Not What You Expect

“When you’re good at something, you’ll tell everyone. When you’re great at something, they’ll tell you.”: this is a quote by Walter Payton that adequately describes the country of Uruguay and its humble people who rarely boast about their country or their triumphs, yet whom the world knows so little of. We’ve gathered some images that will shine a little light on the gorgeous Uruguay.

Though modest, Uruguayans are fiercely proud and consider themselves a formidable football nation with as many World Cup trophies as their neighbours in Argentina.

Uruguay is one of the most modern, safest, cleanest and most stable countries in all of South America.

Yet it remains a country filled with history, like one of the oldest settlements, Colonia del Sacramento.

And it’s never short on unique, sometimes unusual, artistic expressions.

Most famous of which is the emerging hand in Punta del Este.

Casapueblo in Punta Ballena is a complex of buildings built by Carlos Páez Vilaró, a Uruguayan artist, to be used as his own workshop. It now functions as an art gallery, museum, hotel and restaurant to showcase his country’s talent.