Also it was a place of tourist residence of out-standing personalities, like the grandfather of Bartolomé Mitre and Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga. Also it received prestigious tourists, as ex-. Argentine president, Domingo Sarmiento y Juárez Celman and the watercolorist Juan Besnes Irigoyen, who took shape in several of his works the Saint Lucia of these years.

At the beginning of the XXth century there kept on being favorite place of intellectual Montevideans, like José Pedro Varela, writer José Enrique Rodó, and Luisa Luisi; that were coming to this one beautiful place to spend the summer period, also here he was born and Clemente Estable passed his childhood.

A city that had the fortune of which the recognized singer of tangos Carlos Gardel. was visiting it; and in 1997 it was chosen to film the Argentine movie "The Faro".