El Panecillo -
May 10th 2008 My friends and I spent the day at El Panecillo. It is a huge statue of a madonna at the center of the city.
From Wikipedia:
"El Panecillo (from Spanish panecillo small piece of bread) is a 200-meter-high volcanic-origin hill. The original name used by the aboriginal inhabitants of Quito was Yavirac. According to Juan de Velasco, a Jesuit historian, on top of Yavirac there was a temple wh
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