Parque Colón
The central plaza is a lively central square that's crammed with stalls, food vendors, musicians, and circling horse-and-carriages that carry tourists around the city. Here, you can chew on vigorón (a pork and cabbage snack wrapped in banana leaf) while marimba music echoes around the busy meeting place, punctuated by boisterous birds in the trees above. The plaza is surrounded by beautiful architecture, including some of the city's finest hotels. On the southwest corner, there is a yellow colonial building owned by the wealthy Pellas family, owners of Victoria and Toña beers and just about everything else in Nicaragua. Beside the cathedral is a large cross with a 19th-century time capsule buried beneath.
The central plaza is a lively central square that's crammed with stalls, food vendors, musicians, and circling horse-and-carriages that carry tourists around the city. Here, you can chew on vigorón (a pork and cabbage snack wrapped in banana leaf) while marimba music echoes around the busy meeting place, punctuated by boisterous birds in the trees above. The plaza is surrounded by beautiful architecture, including some of the city's finest hotels. On the southwest corner, there is a yellow colonial building owned by the wealthy Pellas family, owners of Victoria and Toña beers and just about everything else in Nicaragua. Beside the cathedral is a large cross with a 19th-century time capsule buried beneath.
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