Former customs house in monochrome Portobelo Panama
by James Brunker
Title
Former customs house in monochrome Portobelo Panama
Artist
James Brunker
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
A black and white image of the former customs house building in Portobelo on the Caribbean coast of Panama. Now a sleepy village, Portobelo was founded in 1597 by Spanish explorer Francisco Velarde y Mercado and was once one of the most important ports in the Spanish Empire in the Americas. Vast amounts of gold and silver from the former Inca Empire in Peru and mines in South America were shipped up the Pacific coast to Panama City and transported across the isthmus to Portobelo before being shipped to Spain. As a result it was repeatedly attacked by pirates (most notably Heny Morgan in 1688), eventually forcing the Spanish to stop using the overland route across Panama and send smaller fleets via Cape Horn instead. The ruins of the Spanish colonial fortifications and colonial buildings, along with nearby Fort San Lorenzo, were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980.
Photograph © James Brunker. Reproduction, transmission or publication in any form without prior written permission strictly prohibited.
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November 12th, 2022
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Allan Van Gasbeck
Congratulations! Your outstanding artwork has been chosen as a FEATURE in the “The Gray Scale Outdoors” group on Fine Art America — You are invited to post your featured image to the featured image discussion thread as a permanent place to continue to get exposure even after the image is no longer on the Home Page.