Machinery
The industrial age.
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A huge industrial complex on the Uruguay River, listed by UNESCO in 2015 as the Fray Bentos Industrial Landscape. It began in 1865 as Liebig's meat-extract factory, then became the Anglo works, which exported canned meat worldwide and fed armies in both world wars. It was once one of South America's first great industrial complexes, with vast buildings, machinery, rail lines and a ship pier, and workers' neighbourhoods of many nationalities. The works closed in 1979 and became the Museum of the Industrial Revolution. Visitors walk through old buildings with giant machines, cold rooms and offices with their furniture and an old telephone switchboard, learning how the factory reshaped the economy and people's lives. Around the complex is a riverside square, lovely at sunset. Fray Bentos is a quiet town on the border with Argentina, reached by an international bridge.
The industrial age.
Old switchboard.
Lovely sunsets.
Uruguay River bank, west of Fray Bentos town
It represents one of South America's first great industrial complexes and its role in world food trade from 1865 to 1979.