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de Saavedra.
Facing Central Park are the handsome Capitol with
a stately white dome, the florid Teatro Central, which
can accommodate an audience of 3,000 and, the Centro
Asturiano Club-house....”
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“...430 POCKET GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES
At the lower end of the Avenida is a substantial group I
of Government Buildings, at the back of which is the I
handsome Teatro Nacional, certainly one of the finest j
buildings of the kind in this part of the world. The I
palatial Union Club, where the Prince of Wales was I
entertained at a Ball on March 31st, 1920, overlooks the I
harbour and bay.
The Malecon, or sea-wall, is a popular and fashionable I
promenade. To the west of it is another Malecon—
that of Las Bovedas, under which are the old prisons. I
The view from these sea-walls of the Pacific—which, I
strange though it may seem to some expectant tourists, I
does not differ in appearance from the Atlantic—is very |
attractive. The islands in the bay are those óf Naos, I
Flamenco, and Culebera, which have now been fortified I
by the United States, and Perico and the larger island of I
Taboga, which can be visited. These islands are believed I
to have been the outlets of the...”
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