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Easter sunrise at the Afro-Antillean Museum
Colon's disappearing historic architecture

 

To the uneducated casual glance, the city of Colon is merely full of ruined and semi-ruined old slums. But to people who know the architecture, a lot of the buildings that are disappearing are examples of a French Caribbean style that made its way to the isthmus in the late 19th century. Efforts are now underway to save at least some of these buildings, but tax laws that discourage historic preservation, land tenure rules that encourage residents to live in condemned buildings without paying rent for decades and make fires the usual means by which title owners regain control over the such properties, and successive national governments' stinginess in dealings with Colon all limit the progress that can be made in this effort. Photo by Eric Jackson

Also in this section:
Easter sunrise at the Afro-Antillean Museum
Colon's disappearing historic architecture
 

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