A blog chronicling a move to Mexico in the middle of the Great Recession. Daily life and cross-cultural oddities around Mexico through the eyes of a traveling gringo.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Scenes from Campeche
That turret-looking thing is a "baluarte" (English, "bulwark"), part of the defensive walls which once ringed the city. Large sections of the wall remain, and 7 of the baluartes. Some now function as museums or public gardens.