Nicaragua's English Language Newspaper

NicaNews #17 October 1998 Vol. 2 - No. 4 - 17


Granada's Cemetery: Where history comes alive.

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Granada's Cemetery: Where history comes alive
One of the most charming, elegant, and unforgettable places in New Orleans is its famous cemetery. Used as a set by Peter Fonda in his classic film "Easy Rider" and later in Roger Vadim's "Cat People", the above-ground tombs there became a modern icon for filmgoers. In Nicaragua, however, one does not have to travel to New Orleans to see this classic marble styling of tombs, but only make a trip to Granada to a cemetery that could have done justice to both movies. [More...]

The Eco-Canal: New approach to an old idea
Proposals to develop trade across the Central American isthmus have turned to an idea almost as old as the colony of Nicaragua itself: the improvement of the San Juan River so that commercial vessels can travel up the river and across Lake Nicaragua, effectively making Granada a sea port. [More...]

Turtle Summit: National campaign begins
There was a flurry of activity September 24 at Managua's Pierre and Marie Curie Universal School in preparation for the arrival of three sea turtles from the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards. [More...]

Granada's La Merced Church
William Walker's ill-fated adventures in Nicaragua have made him perhaps the most well-known and notorious American in Nicaragua's history. What is not so well known is the fact that his intervention in Nicaragua in the spring of 1855 came about as the second round in a civil war that had its beginnings in the Civil War of 1854. [More...]

Granada's Convent-Church of San Francisco
Granada, on the west-central shore of Lake Nicaragua, was founded in 1524 by Francisco Hernández de Córdoba. Throughout Granada's history, pirates appear to have had a particular penchant for raiding this city. They did so until there was nothing left to steal, and what they couldn't carry off, they burned. [More...]

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