The first post will be related to the picture you can all see behind the blog title. That picture of a quiet cobble-paved street you see was taken in Colonia del Sacramento, a town in the Republic of Uruguay, in South America. The Historic Quarter in that town of Colonia was declared a World Heritage Site in 1995. This quarter has many 17th-century buildings, including houses (now turned into museums), churches, and even a lighthouse which is also a museum. The place changed hands from the Portugueses to Spaniards and viceversa several times during the 18th century, until it definitely stayed under Uruguayan flag in the early 19th century.
This town of some 30,000 inhabitants in south-west Uruguay is visited by lots of tourists every year, people who want to see for themselves the old-time colonial marvels this place has to show and offer them. The town has flourished since the colony, and with its river port on the Río de la Plata, its historic site and modern buildings and streets on the new extended part of town it has something to present to almost everyone. It can even boast of a bullring built in 1910 and that hosted up to 8 bullfights until that activity was prohibited in Uruguay in 1912. Now that bullring is just there for a nice souvenir picture with your family. Nonetheless, it was built there and there it is, challenging time and ruin.
