Maldonado Department, Uruguay

CREDIT: TALI KIMELMAN/COURTESY OF SACROMONTE

The playground of South America’s elite is catching on stateside. The buzz began picking up with the arrival of Sacromonte Landscape Hotel, a high-design vineyard retreat with 12 mirrored cabins. Now, creatives are flocking to Campo, a new artistic community where an on-site gallery, café, and food lab, Canteen, opened just weeks ago. Nearby, Garzón Sculpture Park, a nearly 400-acre parcel that’s part outdoor museum, part nature preserve, will host its first exhibition in December 2020, featuring site-specific works by African artists created in partnership with NIROX Sculpture Park in South Africa. And in José Ignacio, Bahia Vik just added new bungalows and a spa. Still to come: the Museum of Latin American Art, slated to open near Punta del Este in 2021. —Siobhan Reid