Ciudad Vieja: The most touristy part of Montevideo filled with great bars, pubs, restaurants and shops. On street Bartolome Mitre ERROR (y los alrededores ) you will find many bars with a variety of music: dance, salsa, rock, flamenco, tango: there are more than fifty places in a few blocks!!! The Mercado del Puerto is a must! It's the old fisherman's market, now transformed into various informal restaurants one next to the other where people sit at the bar instead of at tables around the huge parillas (BBQ's) grilling the most delicious meat right in front of you. Spend an afternoon there on a Saturday eating and drinking with friends and you will be seranaded by traveling musicians and drummers, even a brazilian samba band! Plaza Matriz is the center square where also on saturdays you'll find an antique market. There are various museums in the old town like Museo Torres Garcia where you can check out the work of Uruguay's most famous painter. Plaza Independencia is one of Montevideo's largest plazas located at the entrance to the old town. The old city gate, at the south end of the plaza, is the entrance to the pedestrian street "Peatonal Sarandi." In this plaza you can see the tomb of General Artigas and visit the Theatre Solis to see a concert, ballet or contemporary dance. The old town is also the financial district where you will find many beautiful colonial buildings now operating as banks and commercial buildings..