I’m standing at the top of Colonia del Sacramento’s “Street of Sighs,” an 18th-century passageway built by the Portuguese when they still controlled this peninsula in present-day Uruguay.

It took my fast ferry 75 minutes to get from Buenos Aires in Argentina to the Uruguayan town of Colonia del Sacramento on the ... an ideal prelude to a visit to Uruguay's most popular tourist ...

Luckily, many of the more compelling exhibits are largely visual, including a collection of ancient map reproductions ... Argentina, to Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay, starts at about $16.50 ...