Uruguay, together with countries of the Southern Cone, is working on the regional positioning, promotion and joint marketing of the Jesuit Way within the framework of the 4.12.2918th Specialized Tourism Meeting on Tuesday (XNUMX) in Montevideo. The itinerary is associated with the presence of the Catholic Society of Jesus in South America in the XNUMXth century.
The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Tourism, Benjamin Liberoff, explained the strategy at the opening of the Tourism meeting, together with representatives from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay.
The event also brought together experts from the World Tourism Organization, the Xunta de Galicia and the Ingnacian Way, a cultural tourist itinerary that recreates the route taken by the religious Ignatius of Loyola, who was sanctified after his death, in different parts of the Iberian Peninsula.
Transnational route
The transnational route "Camino de los Jesuitas", shared by the aforementioned countries, its institutionality and the challenges for its consolidation was the focus of the work deployed in a day that took place in the form of workshops.
Liberoff said at a press conference that the Ministry of Tourism and the Inter-American Development Bank have been working for three years to generate the infrastructure, extra-regional positioning, joint promotion and marketing of the Camino de los Jesuitas product. The itinerary is a multi-destination offering associated with the presence of the Catholic order of the Society of Jesus, created by Ignatius of Loyola in the 16th century in South America.
The official said that the announced The air route that Air Europa will cover from July 2019 and that will link Madrid-Puerto Iguazú-Montevideo with two weekly frequencies, will contribute to facilitating the arrival of tourists to the area..the main enclaves
Main enclaves
Calera de las Orfanas, in the department of Colonia, and Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados, in Florida, are the two main enclaves of Uruguay on the Jesuit Trail.
The first is a complex founded between 1741 and 1742, declared a National Historic Monument, which constitutes a magnificent Jesuit legacy located in the southwest of the country, 16 kilometers from Carmelo and 80 kilometers from Colonia del Sacramento. This site offers visitors a tour that includes a very old chapel, remains of other buildings, lime kilns, an interpretation room and a native forest trail.
The other key site is the Estancia Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados or La Calera de los Jesuitas, located 160 kilometers from Montevideo, founded in 1746 by these missionaries of the Catholic Church. The estancia was one of the first centers of organized agricultural, livestock and industrial production that took place in the south-central part of the country.
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