travel42 Hotel Review: Alma Historica Boutique Hotel

Alma Historica Boutique Hotel travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

This hotel occupies a beautiful art nouveau mansion built in the 1890s as the private home of a wealthy Uruguayan family. The elegant house remained in the same family for nearly a century before it was eventually left vacant. In the 2010s an Italian family living in Montevideo purchased the home, hired Uruguayan architects to carefully renovate it into a hotel, and opened Alma in 2015.

Located across from Plaza Zabala in the center of the Old City area o...