Two of the more touristy things we’ve done here is visit the Parque Creatico (Dinosaur park) and the Castillo de la Glorieta.   Unfortunately I don’t have any pictures of the dinosaurs because my camera battery died : (  But the fun fact about Sucre is because there have been lots of dinosaur discoveries around here, including lots of footprints preserved in old river beds, the city has kind of adopted the dinosaur motif.  On pretty much all the roads coming into the city you’ll see a dinosaur sculpture and if you need to make a phone call, just find your friendly neighborhood prehistoric phone.

We also visited this Castle just outside of town.  It’s a really interesting story.  There was this really rich man who owned silver (and gold?) mines in Potosi, a nearby city.  But since Sucre was the capital, all the millonaires from Potosi also had houses in Sucre.  Anyway, he got married in the 1860′s but he and his wife couldn’t have children so they built an orphanage and donated lots of their money to help take care of orphans.  Because of this, Pope Leo XIII named them prince and princess and that’s why their house is known as a castle.  I didn’t know a pope could even do that but if some one wants to catch me up on church history there go right ahead.  Anyway they traveled to Europe a lot and had all kinds of baroque-style stuff in their house and huge marble fireplaces imported from Italy.  It was really beautiful.  The picture below is all I took however because you have to pay to take pictures at places here and I’m a cheapskate.

Unfortunately their nephew sold the castle to the military after the death of the Princess and so all the furniture inside is gone and lots of the windows and floors were damaged.  Military men later told stories of being in the house at night and seeing ghosts, especially of the Princess .  They’re really into ghost stories here.

Another neat fact is you’ll notice the castle has three towers.  One is the campanile/steeple of the chapel and the others are the Prince and Princess’s private towers.  I told Tom when we build our castle, I’m going to need my own tower also.  That’s just not something you can share.