Piriápolis was imagined and impelled by Francisco Piria at the beginning of the last century.
Piriápolis is conforming an attractive panorama that extends by streets and rock roads, by long strips of sand and forests of highest woods, sources, springs, cascades and mountainous areas. The Piriápolis bay has a beautiful beaches and there are attractive places to visit as El Toro, Temple San Francisco and several parks.
Near Piriápolis find the Cerro Pan de Azúcar and the "Estación de Cría de Fauna Autóctona" a conservation area.
Punta del Este (End of the East) is located to little more than 130 kilometers of Montevideo the capital of Uruguay. Is a peninsula that does in the sea. After Piriapolis, Punta del Este is a highest point in tourism of the department of Maldonado. This city has an intense commercial, cultural and sport life and several beaches. In front of Punta del Este is the Gorriti Island that extends in the bay to little two kilometers of the coast. It is possible to be arrived in the boats that permanently leave the port of Punta del Este.
Gorriti Island offers a natural fishing boat, and has two beautiful beaches with inns and forests. Gorriti is a place of high historical and archaeological interest. Through the archaeological investigation, constructions of more than 200 years are discovering their rest: Military bastions as batteries, powder magazines and quarters, Industrial Civil Establishments as rooms, warehouses and furnaces of the Real Marine Company, rest of houses corresponding to the last century.