#fantastic city
Villa Imperial de Potosí. Bolivia.
Cerro Rico, the biggest silver mine of its time, cradle of the riches of the colonial world. Uncommon wealth ostentation and bloody slave labor ran through its alleys. Plated coins for kings and noblemen where minted in its bowels.
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Timbuktu
At the gates of the Sahara. The city of 333 saints. Once a center of culture and trade, house of universities and riches in the Mali and Songhai empires. As it once emerged from the sands, now being swallowed slowly by them.
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