Trinidad de Cuba, on the south side of the island, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and dates back to the 1500s.
For a small town, it has some pretty amazing architecture.
Few of the buildings have been painted recently, but lots are painted in typical Caribean pastel colours.
All the streets in the old part of town are stone or cobbled, but not like the European type of cobbles which in comparison are neat and orderly - they are impossibly random.
Many of the building have had some work to preserve them, but some look like they are "in line" for preservation.
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The fact that they've maintained so much of their architectural history is amazing.
Some of it may be foresight, although it may be that they're just too darn poor to knock the the old sutff down.
A lot to be said for not having enough money to rip everything down and rebuild some modern monstrosity. (Toronto - take note.)
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