Colonia del Sacramento-Barrio Historico

Old city gate and wall.

Old lighthouse.

The flowers were pretty even in the winter.  Must be quite beautiful in the spring and summer

Loved the gargoyle drain spouts on this house.

Bascilia del Santisimo Sancramento

There were places where the original stone paving was still in place with very rough stones (likely from the river shore).

Many of the houses were about 200 years old, but some were older.  We went into several one-room museums and saw a variety of artifacts.  The most surprising was a room full of fossils and other paleo objects.  The picture above was a wall inside a house that did not have the outer plaster applied.  Its rows of wood with mud in between, filled with layers of stones in the mud.

This picture basically tells the history of the region in a nutshell, belonged to Portugal, belonged to Spain, rewind repeat.