Hotel in Balneario Britópolis, near Playa Fomento

Features of Playa Fomento:

• Summer homes along the coast of the Río de la Plata.
• Long, safe swimming beach with a lively beach bar.
• Modern church, coast guard post, police substation, and services for a comfortable stay.
• The only nightclub in Colonia's beach area, popular with vacationers from along the Colonia coast. It is somewhat far from the resort center so as not to disturb families' rest.

Features of the area:

• Located in the eastern part of the department of Colonia, about 120 kilometers west of Montevideo, 60 km from Colonia del Sacramento, and 18 from the Río de la Plata.
• The settlement was founded by colonists who were mostly Swiss, but also German, Austrian, and French. The region includes Nueva Helvecia, Colonia Valdense, Rosario, and the entire extensive stretch of seaside resorts.
• It is a thriving agricultural development area, with the dairy industry as its hallmark. The economy is based on agriculture, livestock, and cheese-making. It is a community of hardworking, persevering people who preserve the traditions of the first immigrants. Its clean, green surroundings evoke a corner of the Swiss nation.
• It is also characterized by the slow pace of life typical of inland towns and by references to Switzerland, visible in homes, squares, parks, schools, cinemas, museums, churches, and cemeteries.
• In the early twentieth century, Uruguay was known as the Switzerland of America for its economic well-being, social development, and banking system.
• Cleanliness, order, and respect for the environment immediately bring to mind an area of the small European gem. The region conveys a great sense of security, tranquility, and freedom, making it unique and sought after by people from around the world who wish to live this way. We have the most important and hardest thing to acquire: the human factor.