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León
León is short for “Santiago de los caballeros de León”
and it is the capital as well as the municipality of Nicaragua’s
León department. Almost 150,000 people live in what is known
as the intellectual centre of the country. It is also an important
industrial and commercial centre of the country. León is located
on the Río Chiquito River, some 50 miles away from Nicaragua’s
capital Managua and about 11 miles from the Pacific Ocean.
Present day León is built upon the site of an old native city
named Subtiava, whose ruins were excavated in 1960 and placed on the
UNESCO World Heritage List in 2000. Next to native architecture one
can also admire exquisite Spanish architecture, the Metropolitan cathedral
being one of such buildings. It is considered to be the largest one
of its kind in whole Central America. León also offers a glimpse
into it’s recent past at the building of El museo de tradiciones
y leyendas, meaning “The museum of tradition and legend”.
The building used to be an infamous jail before the revolution of
1979. There are also numerous political murals to gaze at.
It is fairly easy to get around in León. There are either taxis
or special buses called “camionetas” meaning trucks that
have a fixed route within the city. The staff is known to be very
polite and friendly, allowing you to tell them what your destination
is in order for them to inform you when it is time to get off. The
bus station of León is located in El Coyar district.
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