Iglesia de San Francisco

Dark clouds gather over the roof top of the Iglesia de San Francisco (or San Francisco Church) in La Paz, Bolivia. La Paz is such an amazing city that you could spend months exploring if only there was not so much to do in the Bolivian countryside! The church was built in the Andean Baroque style between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The style is also known as Baroque Mestizo in English or Barroco Andino or Arquitectura Mestiza in Spanish.

Barroco andino was was an artistic movement that flourished between 1680 and 1780 in the then Viceroyalty of Peru and stems from the Portuguese word barrueco, which can translate as few different ways as impure, mottled, flamboyant or daring. The Spanish Empire and the Viceroyalty of Peru collapsed at the beginning of the 19th century with the independence movements for the modern countries of Peru, Chile, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, Guyana and Venezuela.

I love the perspective you get when on a rooftop looking over a city. What is your favorite rooftop view point? I would have three favorites: The Vatican in Rome, The Tokyo Sky-tree, and the Empire State building in NYC.

Robert Downie
Love Life, Love Photography

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