Santa Teresa Fort (1762)

 place with historical importance, fortification, star fort

"Santa Teresa" Fort was started to built by Portuguese on 1762, and completed, years later by Spanish. It was centre of conflict along the centuries: Spanish against Portuguese, Spanish against English, Spanish against Creole, Orientals (pre-Uruguayan) against Portuguese... and ones born the new country (Uruguay), was occupied by General Oribe's forces on the "Big War" (La Guerra Grande). Finally was abandoned and sand and wind cover it under a huge sand's dune.

On 1928, a Archaeologist Horacio Arredondo, begun to cave and recuperate the fort to the Humanity all. He plant 2 million exotic great value trees, in order to fix the dunes, in a 3.000 hectares of a National Park, called "Parque Nacional de Santa Teresa".