Showing posts with label El Salvador. Show all posts
Showing posts with label El Salvador. Show all posts
Monday, August 8, 2011
Sonsonate
We're going through our accumulated pics from trips to El Salvador and Guatemala. There's not a lot of colonial architecture in El Salvador—my eye really enjoys crumbling modernity in spite of the economic/social implications. Sonsonate, the euphonious name belies; it's a hot, gritty city with not much to draw those without business there. We've passed through numerous times and made a trip to see a fine Semana Santa procession; this building caught my attention. The building reminds me of (though not quite on par with) Frédéric Chaubin's photos of mind-tickling Soviet architecture, published by Taschen in CCCP: Cosmic Commuinst Constructions Photographed. I like the pigeon keeping watch in the upper hole-window.
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