Showing posts with label BCR. Show all posts
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Saturday, June 09, 2007

Casa Urquiaga Calonge

Casa Urquiaga Calonge is an historic house, very important for Trujillo. Simon Bolivar was here during the Independence War, you can still finf his beautiful wood desk inside. It's a beautiful exponent of the neoclassical architecture characteristic in the middle of the 19th century. This house now is the office to the Reserve Central Bank (BCR) and to the Police.
...for Annie: I was asking why the windows are so ample and excel, between many answers of architecture I found that the windows were the place where people used to sit to the edge having observed the street, moreover, when windows excel of the house they let peolple to watch the flanks and to see who were outside. ^^