The Uruguayan government introduces a residence permit for foreigners who work remotely as freelancers or for overseas companies. Uruguay offers a residence permit that seeks to encourage the arrival of foreign talent to live and work in the country as digital nomads. This initiative was made effective through the approval of decree 238/022 and [...]
The country entered the top 10 according to the 2022 Annual Global Retirement Index. The international magazine Condé Nast Traveler, which is published by Condé Nast and specializes in luxury tourism and lifestyle, ranked Uruguay among the 10 best places in the world to settle down after retirement. The article, entitled 'The Best Places in [...]
Beekeeper Fabricio Mattio was recognised among more than 6,000 producers who entered the Black Jar International Honey Tasting Contest. For the past ten years, the American organisation Center for Honeybee Research has been organising the annual Black Jar International Honey Tasting Contest, which rewards the best honeys in the world. On this occasion, more than [...]
Inaugurated in December 2018 by Plan Ceibal, the Biblioteca País offers more than 8,000 educational and didactic contents. The Biblioteca País - Plan Ceibal, a platform that can be accessed from any device in its web version or through the download of the mobile phone application, aims to democratise access to culture and knowledge for [...]
The solidarity initiative of the national company Texturable presents the 30 selected artisans and their process of creating design products for the home. After an open call with 300 registered participants, including artisans, artists and designers from all over the country, 30 ventures were selected to participate in the Uruguay Teje initiative of the company [...]
The Church of Christ the Worker and Our Lady of Lourdes of Atlantida is notable for its iconic use of brick and its vaulted structure. Unesco declared the Church of Christ the Worker and Our Lady of Lourdes of Atlantida a World Heritage Site. The building, constructed between 1958 and 1960, is the product of [...]
The prestigious American publication defined the tourist destination as a "relaxing getaway". TIME magazine included the exclusive coastal town of José Ignacio, located in the department of Maldonado, among the 100 extraordinary destinations in the world to explore in 2021. This list, the publication's third of the world's best places, is a "tribute to the [...]
Producer Fernando Epstein joins four other representatives from Uruguay in the select group. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Hollywood, which already has in its ranks musician Jorge Drexler - winner of an Oscar for the song "Al otro lado del río" from the film Diarios de motocicleta - and Uruguayan cinematographers [...]
Uruguay's capital city moved from 88th to 132nd place in the Mercer Cost of Living Ranking 2021 In the 2021 edition of the prestigious Mercer cost-of-living city ranking, Montevideo improved its ranking by dropping 44 places to 132nd, dropping out of the list of the 100 most expensive cities to live in. This year's index [...]
A study by the German company Vaay ranked the Uruguayan capital as the sixteenth least stressful city in the world. Montevideo ranks first among Latin American cities with the least stress factors according to the 2021 edition of the annual study on the most and least stressful cities in the world conducted by the German company Vaay. The capital [...]
Results from the first phase of research were presented on 27 May at the International "Virtual-Wool" Research Conference organised by AgResearch. Lanas Trinidad, a Uruguayan producer and exporter of washed wool and combed wool top, joined designers Ana Piñeyro and Agustina Bello to promote the project, which aims to explore new uses for wool fibre. [...]
Product diversification, expansion into new markets, and investment in new technologies are some of the factors that have allowed the wool industry to achieve and maintain its position in the export economy. With 36 active markets, Uruguay is the 4th largest exporter of wool top by volume in the world, coming in 6th when exports [...]
