Wednesday, September 06, 2006
A world heritageApart from the main island Chiloë Grande, there is also a large archipelago in the straits eastwards to the mainland. If Chiloë Grande is peaceful compared to the mainland, the small island of Lemuy is even more so. It is a piece of countryside nostalgy for a Swede, with some wild Fuchsias with colibris added, which doesn't make it worse.
The Chiloë archipelago houses a fantastic UNESCO Cultural World Heritage, its wooden churches. These have a remarkable common stile across sizes, from the big cathedral in Castro, to village churches such as that in Ichuac on Lemuy.
It is only to hope that the World Heritage status makes it easier to fund maintenance for these buildings, which in some cases was badly needed.
// posted by The beaver @ 12:01 AM 
