leaving the white city
In a couple of hours we are going to leave Sucre to La Paz, with the nightbus.
So we say goodbye to ´the white city’ – all the buildings in the city centre here are painted in colonial c.q. Spanish white. Because of the white city centre, Sucre is now UNESCO-protected.
When we arrived here we thought that Bolivia just had received a huge amount of money, because they are renovating and painting a lot of the buildings here. Later we found out that UNESCO will visit the city centre during the main independence day on May 25th, so that´s why the city council mandates that everything has to be perfect for that day. It doen´t matter if you have or don´t have money, every owner of a building in the city centre has to assure that his building is in perfect shape. Otherwise you will get a fine.
It´s a shame that Sucre is not as rich as we had thought before.
Jannis and Martine.
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