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Trinidad is a Cuban town of about 75,000 inhabitants in the province
central Sancti Spíritus. Together with the nearby Valle de los Ingenios is
listed as a World Heritage site by UNESCO since 1988.
Trindidad was founded by Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar in 1514 as
Villa De la Santísima Trinidad. It is one of the best preserved city of
the Caribbean, from the time when sugar was the main
Trade in these places. They own the remains of that period
colonial slavery, which flourished in Trinidad, to be the largest
attraction of visitors and the very reason of the prestigious
recognition that UNESCO has given the city and the whole area
surrounding most directly interested in the cane growing
sugar (Valle de los Ingenios). Today the primary entry
economy of these places is the processing
tobacco.
The oldest part of town is the best preserved and is the subject
sightseeing by organized tours. In contrast, other
areas outside the tourist part, also very central, pay
in a state of semi-neglect and are a reflection of a widespread unease in the
and cities across the country.
Outside the city is the famous Peninsula Ancon with a well known and
wide sandy beach (Playa Ancon) on which stands a complex
Tourism, one of the first born after the revolution of 1959.
_________________
Italiano
Trinidad è una città cubana di circa 75.000 abitanti della provincia centrale di Sancti Spíritus. Insieme alla vicina Valle de los Ingenios è un sito indicato come Patrimonio dell'umanità dall'UNESCO fin dal 1988.
Trindidad fu fondata da Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar nel 1514 con il nome di Villa De la Santísima Trinidad. È una delle città meglio conservate di tutti i Caraibi, dall'epoca nella quale lo zucchero era il principale commercio in questo luoghi. Sono proprio i resti di quel periodo coloniale e schiavista, nel quale fiorì Trinidad, ad essere la principale attrazione dei visitatori e il motivo stesso del prestigioso riconoscimento che l'UNESCO ha conferito alla città e a tutta l'area circostante più direttamente interessata alla coltivazione della canna da zucchero (la Valle de los Ingenios). Oggi la voce principale dell'economia di questi luoghi è costituita dalla lavorazione del tabacco.
La parte più vecchia della città è quella meglio preservata ed è oggetto di visite turistiche da parte di tour organizzati. Al contrario, diverse zone al di fuori della parte più turistica, anche molto centrali, versano in stato di semi-abbandono e sono lo specchio di un disagio diffuso nella città e in tutto il Paese.
Fuori dalla città c'è la famosa penisola di Ancón con una rinomata e ampia spiaggia di sabbia (Playa Ancón) sulla quale sorge un complesso turistico, fra i primi nati dopo la rivoluzione del 1959.
Saint Paul's Church National Historic Site, Mount Vernon, New York
Saint Paul's Church National Historic Site, Eastchester, Mount Vernon, New York
"In 1763, the people of Eastchester, New York began building the present stone and brick church building of St. Paul’s. It was an upgrade, a replacement for a small, square wooden meetinghouse building, which stood about 60-80 yards west of the current church. The wooden meeting house had been in use since 1700, and by the 1760s, Eastchester was a larger, wealthier town, deserving a more substantial building for public use. It was also the end of the French and Indian War, a time of great celebration, optimism and wealth in the colonies, with the long-dreaded French rivals vanquished from North America. The new church was partly a celebration of that momentous victory of England and her colonies over France."
"The first church was built by the town in 1665 when the residents were dissenters, Puritans who opposed the Church of England, or the Anglican Church. But the British, in an effort to more effectively manage the Royal Colony of New York, legally established the Anglican Church in Westchester County in 1702. Town residents had to accept this new form of church administration, and pay the salaries of ministers assigned to the parish by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. By 1763, Eastchester was more firmly an Anglican parish."
"Design of the church was inspired by the edifices built around London following the Great Fire of 1666, where the principal architect was Christopher Wren. Books with sketches and diagrams based on the construction of some of those churches were available in colonial New York. Local masons helped to build the church along with craftsmen from New York City who would live in the area for months, boarding with Eastchester families. Stones were drawn from the local fields (hence the contemporary term, “fieldstone”), while bricks were also local, probably molded from clay deposits along the Hudson River. Mortar was a proscribed combination of water, sand and lime as the bonding agent, with quantities mixed in a pit at the southern edge of the Green. As a public project of the town, funds were drawn from regular taxation revenues, and supplemented with lotteries."
"A large undertaking for a relatively small town, the church was not complete when the political and military disruption of the American Revolution rocked the area, halting construction. On the eve of the war, most of the exterior was in place, and the tower had been erected about 2/3 of the way to the present steeple, but the interior was little more than a dirt floor. The community was still worshipping in the wooden meetinghouse. Yet, even in its unfinished form, the church was the largest, best built, centrally located building in the vicinity, and since it was unlocked and unused during the War for American Independence, it became the obvious location for a field hospital during local campaigns. It was used by the American, British and Hessian armies. The need for firewood as fuel by those forces led to the complete disassembling of the older meetinghouse by the war’s conclusion."
"At the return of peace in 1783, town residents, now Americans and no longer British colonists, resumed construction and by 1787-8 they had completed the building for use as a house of worship and courthouse. Sales to individual families of space beneath the private, high-walled pew boxes were an important source of income used to cover final construction costs. It was officially named St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in 1795, and a ceiling and interior plaster on the walls was added in the early 1800s. In 1805, after completion of the balcony, it was consecrated, and remained a house of worship through the late 1970s. The Federal Government accepted the church and grounds as a gift from the Episcopal Diocese in 1980."
"In 1942 the church was restored to resemble its original 18th century appearance by Perry, Shaw & Hepburn, the architectural firm that had developed Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia. The church had undergone many changes in the intervening years. The pulpit had been moved from the south to the east wall. The pews had been turned to face east, and then replaced with benches. The altar had emerged as a more important focus of the service than the pulpit. Clear glass windows had been removed and traded for stained glass honoring the town’s prominent families. The walls and (tin) ceiling were stenciled with religious symbols. All of these alterations favored more ceremony and ritual, following trends in the Anglican and Episcopal Church often called the Oxford movement or Anglo-Catholicism, which tried to restore continuity between these denominations and their Catholic origins."
he church, carriage house, cemetery, and grounds were designated as a National Historic Site on July 5, 1943 although not formally authorized until November 10, 1978. The Site was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966.
The text in quotation marks from the Saint Paul's Church National Historic Site website by the US National Park Service: www.nps.gov/sapa/learn/historyculture/st-pauls-church-his...
George Washington's chair is the singular chair in the background.
Independent National Historical Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Herero women wearing traditional Victorian-style dresses and headdress shaped after cattle horns. The headdress symbolizes their relationship with cattle farming, which is central to the Herero economy and lifestyle.
Ingenio Boca de Nigua. Impressive wide-span vault that separated the basement level of the 'boiling house' from its main level. If it was somewhere under this vault that the wood fuel was actually burned to heat the large cauldrons containing the canes' juice while in burners located on the floor above, it must have been an extremely hot area to work in, due to the short height of the space and the seeming location of openings to the outside only in one side of the space.
The historical Friedenskirche in Okahandja hosts a cemetery, where Herero dignitaries are burried alongside the German civilians and members of the Schutztruppe killed during the 1904-07 conflict.
Ingenio Cepi-Cepi de Diego Caballero (Near Carretera Sánchez, Azua Province, Dominican Republic). Internal view of the surviving walls of what may have been the 'milling house' of one of the oldest, early colonial cane-sugar mills of the Americas. The arrow-like opening formed by a vertical space crowned by an arched opening in the masonry wall on the left, may have been the opening through which a large horizontal axis, coming from a water wheel located vertically right behind the wall, transferred its motion to a milling mechanism installed inside the room. (There is a ditch-like structure behind the wall that seems to indicate the location of a water wheel at the site, possibly move by a water current stemming from the upper level seen on the upper right angle of the photo.)
Felsenkirche (Church on the Rocks) is the name given to the German Evangelical Lutheran Church built in 1912 on a rocky hill.
National Parks Service gave us a tour of the birthplace of John Adams in Quincy, MA. Made popular by the HBO Miniseries 'John Adams' based on the biography by David McCullough.
Herero Paramount Chief Kuaima Riruako pauses at the grave of Albert Fürnrohr, a Schutztruppe officer killed during the 1904 conflict.
Trinidad is a Cuban town of about 75,000 inhabitants in the province
central Sancti Spíritus. Together with the nearby Valle de los Ingenios is
listed as a World Heritage site by UNESCO since 1988.
Trindidad was founded by Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar in 1514 as
Villa De la Santísima Trinidad. It is one of the best preserved city of
the Caribbean, from the time when sugar was the main
Trade in these places. They own the remains of that period
colonial slavery, which flourished in Trinidad, to be the largest
attraction of visitors and the very reason of the prestigious
recognition that UNESCO has given the city and the whole area
surrounding most directly interested in the cane growing
sugar (Valle de los Ingenios). Today the primary entry
economy of these places is the processing
tobacco.
The oldest part of town is the best preserved and is the subject
sightseeing by organized tours. In contrast, other
areas outside the tourist part, also very central, pay
in a state of semi-neglect and are a reflection of a widespread unease in the
and cities across the country.
Outside the city is the famous Peninsula Ancon with a well known and
wide sandy beach (Playa Ancon) on which stands a complex
Tourism, one of the first born after the revolution of 1959.
_________________
Italiano
Trinidad è una città cubana di circa 75.000 abitanti della provincia centrale di Sancti Spíritus. Insieme alla vicina Valle de los Ingenios è un sito indicato come Patrimonio dell'umanità dall'UNESCO fin dal 1988.
Trindidad fu fondata da Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar nel 1514 con il nome di Villa De la Santísima Trinidad. È una delle città meglio conservate di tutti i Caraibi, dall'epoca nella quale lo zucchero era il principale commercio in questo luoghi. Sono proprio i resti di quel periodo coloniale e schiavista, nel quale fiorì Trinidad, ad essere la principale attrazione dei visitatori e il motivo stesso del prestigioso riconoscimento che l'UNESCO ha conferito alla città e a tutta l'area circostante più direttamente interessata alla coltivazione della canna da zucchero (la Valle de los Ingenios). Oggi la voce principale dell'economia di questi luoghi è costituita dalla lavorazione del tabacco.
La parte più vecchia della città è quella meglio preservata ed è oggetto di visite turistiche da parte di tour organizzati. Al contrario, diverse zone al di fuori della parte più turistica, anche molto centrali, versano in stato di semi-abbandono e sono lo specchio di un disagio diffuso nella città e in tutto il Paese.
Fuori dalla città c'è la famosa penisola di Ancón con una rinomata e ampia spiaggia di sabbia (Playa Ancón) sulla quale sorge un complesso turistico, fra i primi nati dopo la rivoluzione del 1959.
Trinidad is a Cuban town of about 75,000 inhabitants in the province
central Sancti Spíritus. Together with the nearby Valle de los Ingenios is
listed as a World Heritage site by UNESCO since 1988.
Trindidad was founded by Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar in 1514 as
Villa De la Santísima Trinidad. It is one of the best preserved city of
the Caribbean, from the time when sugar was the main
Trade in these places. They own the remains of that period
colonial slavery, which flourished in Trinidad, to be the largest
attraction of visitors and the very reason of the prestigious
recognition that UNESCO has given the city and the whole area
surrounding most directly interested in the cane growing
sugar (Valle de los Ingenios). Today the primary entry
economy of these places is the processing
tobacco.
The oldest part of town is the best preserved and is the subject
sightseeing by organized tours. In contrast, other
areas outside the tourist part, also very central, pay
in a state of semi-neglect and are a reflection of a widespread unease in the
and cities across the country.
Outside the city is the famous Peninsula Ancon with a well known and
wide sandy beach (Playa Ancon) on which stands a complex
Tourism, one of the first born after the revolution of 1959.
_________________
Italiano
Trinidad è una città cubana di circa 75.000 abitanti della provincia centrale di Sancti Spíritus. Insieme alla vicina Valle de los Ingenios è un sito indicato come Patrimonio dell'umanità dall'UNESCO fin dal 1988.
Trindidad fu fondata da Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar nel 1514 con il nome di Villa De la Santísima Trinidad. È una delle città meglio conservate di tutti i Caraibi, dall'epoca nella quale lo zucchero era il principale commercio in questo luoghi. Sono proprio i resti di quel periodo coloniale e schiavista, nel quale fiorì Trinidad, ad essere la principale attrazione dei visitatori e il motivo stesso del prestigioso riconoscimento che l'UNESCO ha conferito alla città e a tutta l'area circostante più direttamente interessata alla coltivazione della canna da zucchero (la Valle de los Ingenios). Oggi la voce principale dell'economia di questi luoghi è costituita dalla lavorazione del tabacco.
La parte più vecchia della città è quella meglio preservata ed è oggetto di visite turistiche da parte di tour organizzati. Al contrario, diverse zone al di fuori della parte più turistica, anche molto centrali, versano in stato di semi-abbandono e sono lo specchio di un disagio diffuso nella città e in tutto il Paese.
Fuori dalla città c'è la famosa penisola di Ancón con una rinomata e ampia spiaggia di sabbia (Playa Ancón) sulla quale sorge un complesso turistico, fra i primi nati dopo la rivoluzione del 1959.
Herero women wearing traditional Victorian-style dresses and headdress shaped after cattle horns. The headdress symbolizes their relationship with cattle farming, which is central to the Herero economy and lifestyle.
Trinidad is a Cuban town of about 75,000 inhabitants in the province
central Sancti Spíritus. Together with the nearby Valle de los Ingenios is
listed as a World Heritage site by UNESCO since 1988.
Trindidad was founded by Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar in 1514 as
Villa De la Santísima Trinidad. It is one of the best preserved city of
the Caribbean, from the time when sugar was the main
Trade in these places. They own the remains of that period
colonial slavery, which flourished in Trinidad, to be the largest
attraction of visitors and the very reason of the prestigious
recognition that UNESCO has given the city and the whole area
surrounding most directly interested in the cane growing
sugar (Valle de los Ingenios). Today the primary entry
economy of these places is the processing
tobacco.
The oldest part of town is the best preserved and is the subject
sightseeing by organized tours. In contrast, other
areas outside the tourist part, also very central, pay
in a state of semi-neglect and are a reflection of a widespread unease in the
and cities across the country.
Outside the city is the famous Peninsula Ancon with a well known and
wide sandy beach (Playa Ancon) on which stands a complex
Tourism, one of the first born after the revolution of 1959.
_________________
Italiano
Trinidad è una città cubana di circa 75.000 abitanti della provincia centrale di Sancti Spíritus. Insieme alla vicina Valle de los Ingenios è un sito indicato come Patrimonio dell'umanità dall'UNESCO fin dal 1988.
Trindidad fu fondata da Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar nel 1514 con il nome di Villa De la Santísima Trinidad. È una delle città meglio conservate di tutti i Caraibi, dall'epoca nella quale lo zucchero era il principale commercio in questo luoghi. Sono proprio i resti di quel periodo coloniale e schiavista, nel quale fiorì Trinidad, ad essere la principale attrazione dei visitatori e il motivo stesso del prestigioso riconoscimento che l'UNESCO ha conferito alla città e a tutta l'area circostante più direttamente interessata alla coltivazione della canna da zucchero (la Valle de los Ingenios). Oggi la voce principale dell'economia di questi luoghi è costituita dalla lavorazione del tabacco.
La parte più vecchia della città è quella meglio preservata ed è oggetto di visite turistiche da parte di tour organizzati. Al contrario, diverse zone al di fuori della parte più turistica, anche molto centrali, versano in stato di semi-abbandono e sono lo specchio di un disagio diffuso nella città e in tutto il Paese.
Fuori dalla città c'è la famosa penisola di Ancón con una rinomata e ampia spiaggia di sabbia (Playa Ancón) sulla quale sorge un complesso turistico, fra i primi nati dopo la rivoluzione del 1959.
Trinidad is a Cuban town of about 75,000 inhabitants in the province
central Sancti Spíritus. Together with the nearby Valle de los Ingenios is
listed as a World Heritage site by UNESCO since 1988.
Trindidad was founded by Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar in 1514 as
Villa De la Santísima Trinidad. It is one of the best preserved city of
the Caribbean, from the time when sugar was the main
Trade in these places. They own the remains of that period
colonial slavery, which flourished in Trinidad, to be the largest
attraction of visitors and the very reason of the prestigious
recognition that UNESCO has given the city and the whole area
surrounding most directly interested in the cane growing
sugar (Valle de los Ingenios). Today the primary entry
economy of these places is the processing
tobacco.
The oldest part of town is the best preserved and is the subject
sightseeing by organized tours. In contrast, other
areas outside the tourist part, also very central, pay
in a state of semi-neglect and are a reflection of a widespread unease in the
and cities across the country.
Outside the city is the famous Peninsula Ancon with a well known and
wide sandy beach (Playa Ancon) on which stands a complex
Tourism, one of the first born after the revolution of 1959.
_________________
Italiano
Trinidad è una città cubana di circa 75.000 abitanti della provincia centrale di Sancti Spíritus. Insieme alla vicina Valle de los Ingenios è un sito indicato come Patrimonio dell'umanità dall'UNESCO fin dal 1988.
Trindidad fu fondata da Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar nel 1514 con il nome di Villa De la Santísima Trinidad. È una delle città meglio conservate di tutti i Caraibi, dall'epoca nella quale lo zucchero era il principale commercio in questo luoghi. Sono proprio i resti di quel periodo coloniale e schiavista, nel quale fiorì Trinidad, ad essere la principale attrazione dei visitatori e il motivo stesso del prestigioso riconoscimento che l'UNESCO ha conferito alla città e a tutta l'area circostante più direttamente interessata alla coltivazione della canna da zucchero (la Valle de los Ingenios). Oggi la voce principale dell'economia di questi luoghi è costituita dalla lavorazione del tabacco.
La parte più vecchia della città è quella meglio preservata ed è oggetto di visite turistiche da parte di tour organizzati. Al contrario, diverse zone al di fuori della parte più turistica, anche molto centrali, versano in stato di semi-abbandono e sono lo specchio di un disagio diffuso nella città e in tutto il Paese.
Fuori dalla città c'è la famosa penisola di Ancón con una rinomata e ampia spiaggia di sabbia (Playa Ancón) sulla quale sorge un complesso turistico, fra i primi nati dopo la rivoluzione del 1959.
The caption to this 1920s` picture on the occasion of the Paris Colonial Exhibition says of this living exhibit: "An Annamese Longfinger, whose incredibly long fingernails are his great pride." In addition to Annam, the French colonial empire in south-east Asia also included Cambodia.
Anlaesslich der Pariser Kolonialausstellung meint der Redakteur des Bildtextes aus den zwanziger Jahren ueber dieses lebende Exponat zu wissen: "Ein Langfinger aus Annam, dessen unglaublich lange Fingernaegel sein ganzer Stolz sind." Neben Annam umfasste das franzoesische Kolonialgebiet in Ostasien auch Kambodscha.
Curious Moments, S. 616.
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Ingenio Cepi-Cepi de Diego Caballero (Near Carretera Sánchez, Azua Province, Dominican Republic). Remains of a rubble masonry and brick wall of a building probably related to the ruins of the milling house of the sugar estate located nearby. For decades the surrounding terrain has been used as agricultural land. An uncovered segment of a ground level ditch apparently connecting both areas may indicate a possible functional connection between the two in the form of hydraulic force. View is from the south looking north.
Ingenio Boca de Nigua. Interior view of what seems to have been the sugar-estate's 'milling house,' built with a poligonal permiter presumably to allow for the functioning of a large horizontal 'flying wheel' that, placed above (and connected to) the milling rollers (maybe located at the center), was moved by oxen or horses that moved around it.
After the procession was over, members of the mounted escort entertained the bystanders with a display of their riding skills.
Herero Paramount Chief Kuaima Riruako delivers a speech at an ancestral grave at the Friedenskirche cemetery as Chief Tjipene Keja watches on.
After the procession was over, members of the mounted escort entertained the bystanders with a display of their riding skills.
Ingenio Cepi-Cepi de Diego Caballero (Near Carretera Sánchez, Azua Province, Dominican Republic). View of stone and mortar made structures superimposed to each other, and possibly of different historical periods, of what seems to have been an irrigation system of one of the early colonial cane-sugar mills of the Americas, originally built during the first half of the sixteenth century. In early 2010 the site was still covered by thick, arid climate, almost impenetrable, spine-filled type of bush ('guazábara').