La Moneda Palace, Santiago
Built as the Royal Mint of colonial Chile and converted into the presidential palace in the nineteenth century, La Moneda is the most historically resonant…
Built as the Royal Mint of colonial Chile and converted into the presidential palace in the nineteenth century, La Moneda is the most historically resonant…
Housed in the Bellavista Fortress, this is where Costa Rica abolished its army in 1948 — a hammer blow to a rampart wall that became one of the most…
The oldest continually functioning legislative building in South America, the Palacio Legislativo anchors the UNESCO-listed colonial center of Sucre…
Paraguay’s presidential palace was begun under the first constitutional president and completed as his son plunged the country into the most catastrophic war…
A fantastical fusion of Moorish and Gothic stonework in the heart of Medellin, the Palacio de la Cultura is the most extraordinary 20th-century civic…
The presidential palace of Ecuador occupies the western flank of Quito’s Plaza Grande in one of the best-preserved colonial city centers on earth, a site of…
The oldest surviving building in Namibia, built in 1890 as a German colonial fortress and now housing the Independence Memorial Museum.
Semarang’s iconic colonial landmark, whose name means “Thousand Doors” in Javanese, is the grandest railway headquarters ever built in the Dutch East Indies…
A church of cake-icing blue, from mosaic roof to pastel walls – Odon Lechner’s Hungarian Secession fantasy and the most photographed building in Slovakia.
The opera house the coffee farmers taxed themselves to build – a Paris jewel in Central America, opened with Faust in 1897.