Bell Towers of the Cathedral - Potosí, Bolivia
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S 19° 35.334 W 065° 45.200
20K E 211160 N 7831681
These are the bell towers of the Cathedral in Potosí
Waymark Code: WM12KY4
Location: Bolivia
Date Posted: 06/13/2020
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The Cathedral of Potosí has two beautiful bell towers. It's located by the main square of this historical town, which is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list.
Access to the bell tower and this tower is granted during the tour of the cathedral. It's a great tour, very affordable and usually on a private basis. There are two bells together. In one of them the date 1807 can be seen engraved in the metal surface.
It's not clear whether the opposite bell tower can be visited but definitely the visitor will have access to one of them.
From Wikipedia
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visit link)
The Cathedral Basilica of Potosí, the official name is Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace (Spanish: Catedral Basílica de Nuestra Señora de La Paz), is a minor basilica and cathedral with baroque and neoclassical colonial influence. It has a stone facade and is located in the 10 de Noviembre Square in the center of this Bolivian city.It was built between 1808–1838 on the site where the old church collapsed in 1807. Its main promoter was the Fray Manuel Sanahuya.
In the nineteenth century on the site was working with the neoclassical style, leaving us among other works, his exemplary maximum, the new main church, Basilica today for the years 1808–1836, whose author was the Spanish, Franciscan Friar and architect Manuel de Sanahuja, who introduced the neoclassical style in Potosi, simultaneously to the Cathedral did other work both religious and civil architecture. He moved to La Paz, where he died in 1834.