did not take the pic from the centre midline and the autostitch software does not aim to make vertical lines vertical ... only way to avoid the people in the restaurant to the left ... so a bit twisted ...
I was kidding you, the towers were built like that to make sure there was enough space for rain water to flow out of the plaza before it over-flooded the area.
In the colonial period this place was known as the swamp due to the floods, they even had to make a whole in one of the walls of the square for the water to scape, it is known today as "El chorro" (the stream).
Near the cathedral there is a road we call "Canal del Chorro" , it was the original canal to bring water to the city from the Almendares river, and the
hole the made on the wall was to relieve the accumulated water into that canal.
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JLHernandez, on November 27, 2007, said:
What happened to symmetry ?
Did you use a defective lense :-) ?
Johan__, on November 27, 2007, said:
did not take the pic from the centre midline and the autostitch software does not aim to make vertical lines vertical ... only way to avoid the people in the restaurant to the left ... so a bit twisted ...
JLHernandez, on November 27, 2007, said:
Johan,
I was kidding you, the towers were built like that to make sure there was enough space for rain water to flow out of the plaza before it over-flooded the area.
In the colonial period this place was known as the swamp due to the floods, they even had to make a whole in one of the walls of the square for the water to scape, it is known today as "El chorro" (the stream).
Johan__, on November 27, 2007, said:
now it sounds like you are kidding me :-) i can believe this to have been a very svampy area. lot of floods in the rain season?
JLHernandez, on November 27, 2007, said:
That's the real history.
Near the cathedral there is a road we call "Canal del Chorro" , it was the original canal to bring water to the city from the Almendares river, and the hole the made on the wall was to relieve the accumulated water into that canal.