GetMap

Montevideo

Uruguay · 10 quests

History

1 quest
Salvo Palace, Montevideo🇺🇾 Montevideo
Salvo Palace
The hotel planned inside never opened

Nature

1 quest
Rambla Wilson, Montevideo🇺🇾 Montevideo
Rambla Wilson
The riverfront gives way to paths around a lake

Art

2 quests
Contemporary Art Space, Montevideo🇺🇾 Montevideo
Contemporary Art Space
Its art hangs inside a former prison
Padlock Fountain, Montevideo🇺🇾 Montevideo
Padlock Fountain
Locks turn a small fountain into a love note

Food

2 quests
Chivito Canadiense, Montevideo🇺🇾 Montevideo
Chivito Canadiense
Steak hides beneath ham bacon and melted cheese
Asado de Tira, Montevideo🇺🇾 Montevideo
Asado de Tira
The ribs arrive cut across the bone

Beach

1 quest
Playa de los Ingleses, Montevideo🇺🇾 Montevideo
Playa de los Ingleses
Rocks break up this tucked-away sandy cove

Sport

1 quest
Centenario Stadium, Montevideo🇺🇾 Montevideo
Centenario Stadium
Uruguay came from behind in the first World Cup final

Party

2 quests
Bar Tabaré, Montevideo🇺🇾 Montevideo
Bar Tabaré
A 1919 bar still keeps its stage for the night
Fun Fun, Montevideo🇺🇾 Montevideo
Fun Fun
Its famous drink mixes two very different wines

Uruguay

Photo quests in Montevideo

What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around.

Montevideo holds ten quests across every category the catalogue keeps, with no single one of them defining the place: Art, Food and Party are level at two quests each.

Two of them are tier 1 — finds rather than fixtures, and the one tier whose check-in asks for PRO; the other eight are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers seven of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

Art covers the work and the building around it, so a mural on an ordinary street counts alongside the collection with a ticket desk. A food quest names the dish rather than the restaurant: the pin sits on the room that serves it, but what you are going for is the plate. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point.

By category

Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the Montevideo quests among them.

Tier 1

The unexpected ones

The two quests in Montevideo the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures — the half of a city a guidebook has no room for.

Nearby

Cities near Montevideo

Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country.

Questions

About quests in Montevideo

How many photo quests are there in Montevideo?
10, across all seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are Art (2), Food (2) and Party (2). Among them: Salvo Palace, Rambla Wilson and Contemporary Art Space.
What is there to do in Montevideo beyond the obvious?
2 of the 10 quests in Montevideo are tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". Montevideo holds two at tier 1, one at tier 2 and seven at tier 3. The tier 1 quests here are Playa de los Ingleses and Padlock Fountain, which fall under Art and Beach.
Can you do all the Montevideo quests on one trip?
Most of them, with transport. The outermost of the 10 is 10.0 km from the middle of the Montevideo list, so the cluster in the middle is an afternoon and the edges are a bus or a taxi each.
Which Montevideo quests can you do for free?
8 of the 10 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 10 can be read and travelled to without paying anything — the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in Montevideo means two quests: Playa de los Ingleses and Padlock Fountain.
How do I prove I visited a place in Montevideo?
Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in Montevideo is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from Salvo Palace fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you. The Food quests in Montevideo sit on the room where the dish is served rather than on the dish, so that address is what the 200 m is measured from.