San Pedro de Timote might well be called the most prestigious and best known historic Estancia of Uruguay.
Es an estancia, in the 19th and 20th century sence of an estancia it was founded by Pedro Jose Jackson in 1854.
However these were also the lands of Uruguay’s first and and most important Estancia Jesuitica (Society of Jesus), and thus the very first european agricultural venture : Nuestra Senora de los Desamparados, founded 1740’s, being roughly 100.000 hectar in size and run for a few decades until the Jesuits were expelled from South America in 1767.
San Pedro for the last 150 years has been linked to the most prominent names of Estanciero families, the Jacksons, Hebers and for almost 100 years the Gallinals.
All having been in their times pioneers of agriculture, introducing new livestock breeds and improved productivity to Uruguay.
While San Pedro de Timote was allways a lifestock venture, and during most of the 20th having sheep producing whool on its roundabout 30.000 hectar, it changed hands again at the end of the 1990’s,
to be since then run as a tourist Estancia or Hotel de Campo.
Today you can stay as a guest in San Pedro, be it for the day or various days in one of the roughly 30 bedrooms, enjoy the stately and historic charme of the estate, making long strolls through 500 hectar of park, horse ride, or on a winter day settle by the side of one of the huge open fire places.
reserve or inquire be mail centraldereservas@montevideo.com.uy
or phone +598-310-8086/87
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