Haloed Beings on Hills

I haven’t been to many European cities: only Paris and Chartre… and Bombay and Calcutta if we get technical, so I don’t have a great foundation to plant this opinion in, but Quito is totally Europe. I’d say southern Europe. From my extensive travels there, yup. It’s the churches… everywhere. Like Starbucks.

This scene is a panorama of the wide-open, plain-like non-skyline of Quito, Ecuador, from the old, Gothic Basilica del Voto Nacional. Ok, the basilica’s actually younger than me – it was consecrated in 1988, in an unfinished state. In fact, it’s still unfinished, what with end-of-the-world-if-the-basilica-were-to-be-completed scenarios floating around. But it looks f’n authentic for being a young pup of a cathedral.

If you zoom into the top of the hill at the center of the panorama, you’ll see the angel that watches over this side of Quito. The other side can go to Hell, I guess.

--The Journagraphist

P.S. This was the Spring Break 2009 trip