One Island, One World - Boracay Universe
Boracay is an island of the Philippines that is rich with history and contains some truly unique qualities. Armand, a Filipino man born on Boracay, explains a bit about the island through his eyes, and his ideas.
Lezama Park Stairways (Escalinatas en Parque Lezama)
Lezama Park is bordered by the streets Defensa and Brazil, and the avenues Paseo Colón and Martín García, in the neighborhood of San Telmo, the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Some historians, the park would be located in the place where Pedro de Mendoza made the first foundation of Buenos Aires in 1536. This early settlement would be abandoned the following year, after the siege of the local Indians, and thus its location has been a subject of debate among archaeologists and historians.
Mendoza.Hacia Monument to Peter the late eighteenth century, part of the current park was used by the Company of the Philippines, selling slaves. In 1802, the estate passed to Manuel Gallego, and Valcárcel. At his death in 1808, was purchased at a public auction by Daniel Mackinlay, who started the afforestation of the site-and eventually was sold by his heirs to English Ridgley Charles Horne, in 1846. This expanded the original land purchased neighboring land and built a mansion on the present street Defense, but in 1852, with the fall of Juan Manuel de Rosas, was forced into exile in Montevideo. For years the house waved the British flag, and thus porteños acomtumbraron to call the Villa of the English, as shown in various urban plans at the time, and is mentioned in the famous story of Esteban Echeverría's slaughterhouse.
The property was sold in 1857 the landowner Salta Jose Gregorio Lezama, who annexed land to the current Brazilian street. Lezama remodeled the mansion and became an important place in private park designed by landscape architect Charles Belgian Vereecke, as it was a great lover of botany. Also in 1858, during the cholera epidemic that engulfed the city, there ran a leper. After the death of the rancher in 1889, his widow Angela Álzaga in 1894 sold the land to the City of Buenos Aires for a token ($ 1,500,000), provided it was turned into a public park named after her husband. The luxurious and spacious mansion Defensa Street was installed in 1897 the National Historical Museum, in its exhibit halls are more than 50,000 items relating to the history of Argentina until 1950.
In those years, he held Lezama Park artificial lake densely forested on the Brazilian side of the road. In 1914, he was replaced by an open-air amphitheater at first had wooden bleachers, then replaced by cement plants coated cobblestones. Worth noting that compared to today amphitheater, was built between 1898 and 1901, the temple of the Russian Orthodox Church, designed by architect Mikhail Timofeievich Preobrazensky. In 1931, the fence surrounding the property and was inherited from the times of José Lezama, was demolished by order of Mayor Jose Guerrico, and so the park was opened to the public permanently. However, in late 1990 started new proposals to re-fence the park, a practice that Buenos Aires was extended in those years due to the lack of security and vandalism suffered by the city's public spaces at night.
Geyzernoye (geyser) Lake
Geyzernoye (geyser) Lake. The Valley of Geysers, Kronotskiy Reserve, Kamchatka, Russia. August 2011.