These first images are from the Metropolitan Cathedral of the City: > It is a temple that follows the Roman and Latin rite. It is the seat of the Archdiocese of Ciudad Bolívar (Archdiocese Civitatis Bolivarensis), which was created on June 21, 1958 with the status of metropolitan archdiocese through the bula Magna quidem of Pope Pius XII. It was dedicated, as its name indicates, to Santo Tomás Apostól at the time when the city belonged to the Diocese of Santo Tomás de Guayana (created in 1790).
Its tower has a height of 44 meters, the central nave measures 26 meters and has a sculpture dedicated to Santo Tomás.
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The "Paseo Orinoco" is definitely the most iconic place in my city. The trade is located there, merchants located in buildings from the beginning of the century, in front of our majestic Orinoco River. But there are many images of this place, so I preferred to take photos of details and different perspectives, focusing on the infrastructure, architecture, colors, and those details that go unnoticed.
The tree that broke the ground is a Ceiba:
" For the Mayans, the ceiba was and continues to be a divine tree, which is why they consider it "the tree of life", where its branches form the sky, the trunk the earthly plane and its roots weave the underworld, connecting thus, the three cosmogonic levels",
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This tree is highly appreciated and protected in my country because it is a giant tree that takes a long time to grow.
The patriotic love street is located diagonal to the House of the Congress of Angostura and the Metropolitan Cathedral, it is a beautiful cobbled street full of beautifully colored colonial houses. The houses of the Historic Center of my city belong to the State heritage, which is why they are required to be very well cared for, although many have been covered with cement, they were built of adobe at the time of the Spanish colonization:
"Adobe" , a word that comes from the Arabic al-tub (طوب), is an unfired brick, a construction piece made from a mass of mud (clay and sand), sometimes mixed with straw, molded in the shape of brick and sun-dried; With them, various types of construction elements are built, such as walls, walls...
All these pictures were taken by myself with my Panasonic DMC-FH15 lumix, which 1\125, ISO: 100.