Plaza de Armas with Ramp to Gundeck

This stairway used to be a ramp so they could drag the cannons up to the gundeck. Later they built the staircase for us tourists.

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Wintery, Blustery St. Augustine

January 6th 2010
Geo: 29.892, -81.3143You go for the history, but you stay for the eclectic little shops surrounding old town. I could stay a week wandering in and out of tiny, classy, funky eye-candy shops on tiny, narrow, closed-in, cobbled, wobble-d lanes.St. Augustine was Spain's bastioned battle front against the hungry British and French. This was a veritable lifeline of wealth they were protecting. ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more

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