Arena Market: Uruguay
In modern arena terms, Uruguay is a pretty simple proposition, beginning and ending with the ASM Global-managed Antel Arena.
The 10-15,000-capacity venue, which opened in November 2018 in the central Villa Española district of Montevideo, endured a couple of agonisingly slow years between 2020 and 2022 like everywhere else and now performs the role of a modern arena touring stop with quiet aplomb.
In fact, it’s hard to imagine quite what Montevideo did without its new building, given the volume of region-spanning tours that have passed through in 2023 and 2024, including Louis Tomlinson, Tan Biónica, Emilia Mernes, La Vuela Puerca, Mon Laferte, Ricky Martin, Camilo, and The Cure.
One of South America’s smaller capitals, but also one of its most visited, Montevideo has a metropolitan population of around 2m and enjoys close ties with Buenos Aires, from which it is accessible via ferry across…
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