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1000places > SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR - Our hotel in San Salvador was the Sheraton Presidente. We were told that the President of Spain was having dinner at the hotel the night we arrived.
1000places > SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR - Papusas are, in fact, one of El Salvador's traditional foods. Several of us ordered breakfast from the Estacion de Pupusas, the "pupusa station," at our hotel.
1000places > SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR - Our first steps back into the Mayan world actually came at the Museo Nacional de Antropologia which normally would have been closed on the day we were in the city but was opened so we could have an exclusive tour.
1000places > SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR - When El Salvador's 12-year civil war ended in 1992, millions of men and boys found they had no job skills other than firing weapons. Thousands are now employed as private guards, including this one outside the art gallery of Ferrando Llort (who designed the tiles for the Metropolitan Cathedral).
1000places > SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR - Some faces just jump out at you. In the park across the street from the Metropolitan Cathedral, this gentleman resting on a bench caught our attention.
1000places > SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR - Our first stop was at the Metropolitan Cathedral, built on the site of the Old San Salvador Cathedral. When the original church was consumed by fire, construction of the new concrete and steel cathedral was begun. But it took until 1999 to finish it.
1000places > SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR - Beneath the Cathedral is the crypt of Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez, an outspoken advocate for the poor and victims of El Salvador's civil war. In 1980, he was assassinated while consecrating the Eucharist during mass, provoking an international outcry for human rights reform. In 1997, a cause for sainthood was opened for the archbishop which continues today.
1000places > SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR - One of the magnificant stained glass windows at the Metropolitan Cathedral.
1000places > SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR - Rising 148 feet above the ground floor of the Metropolitan Cathedral is the bright Churriguresque cupula. It has a radius of 79 feet.
SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR - Our hotel in San Salvador was the Sheraton Presidente. We were told that the President of Spain was having dinner at the hotel the night we arrived.

1000places > SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR - Our hotel in San Salvador was the Sheraton Presidente. We were told that the President of Spain was having dinner at the hotel the night we arrived.
SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR - Our hotel in San Salvador was the Sheraton Presidente. We were told that the President of Spain was having dinner at the hotel the night we arrived.

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