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Salta, Argentina: Colonial Building on Plaza 9 de Julio

From Bonnie Hamre, About.com

Colonial Building on the Plaza, SaltaRoberto Ingledew
Colonial Building on the Plaza, Salta
As elsewhere, the plaza is the heart of the colonial city. Buildings on the plaza were alwasys the most important to the colonisers: the Cabildo, center of civic government, commercial buildings, the church or cathedral and the plaza itself, a staging ground for military exercises and defense.

Note the carved wooden balcony, the arched and decorated windows and the adjacent pink cathedral.

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