Street Art at LaSalle School

This school is located kitty-corner to the Ital-Deli on Av Solano.

In the school year, class begins early...we've heard the sirens at 7am. Now, the kids are out for the break.

We've also heard that this school is very popular.  Parents place their babies on the waiting list soon after they are born!

Colegio Hermano Miguel "La Salle" is a private high school associated with the Christian Brothers. 

Students are known for sports and academic excellence.  During the summer break, some students need to attend 'summer school' for extra tutoring, if they don't pass the test to move on to the next grade during the school year.  We see a surprising few students attending classes now...just a handful still in their uniforms.

(The above pic shows the school on the right.  Must have been some taxi association event at the school this day...The parking lot across the street was filled with yellow taxis. You can also see some street construction...(Blue building is the school.)

On a recent walk, we enjoyed street art by local artists along one of the school's surrounding streets, Av Luis Moreno Mora.

We hear there was some kind of student contest for the art that used to face Av Solano.  It was all about safe driving.  Unfortunately, we didn't get pics of that art. 

Now, it's all painted over...Here is the some of the latest art on that wall.

 

 

 

 

A couple more unlabeled statues in this stretch of Av Solano. 

All of these statues will be refurbished as the renovation of Av Solano moves to the next phases.  We're eager to see who these important monuments represent!

Happy Weekend!

A Parade of Nuns

Sunday we 'happened' upon a parade at the Square.  We're still trying to figure out what the occasion was...

There was a banner in the beginning but we couldn't get close enough to read it.






Then a HUGE banner about a block long!
Lots of nuns and students carrying it somewhere.

Here are the students at the end of the parade.

There was also a spirited marching band (and, yes, they played "Chola Cuencana"!)











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The children were having a great time posing for pictures with the cars. 

These cars seem to be more popular than the horses.

Note the girls posing nicely.

Here are a couple busy little boys, taking the car apart.

What you don't see is the back wheel off and leaning on the fence.

Dad intervened right after this picture was taken.

A family posing with the best prop of all!

We weren't the only photographers... this little girl was taking a picture of her parents.

Just another fun and relaxing Sunday.

Av Solano and a History Lesson

More walking pictures through the sidewalk construction on Av Solano.  It's always amazing to us that we see real progress each day we walk this route to town.

Supplies on site.

If you enlarge these pics, there are lots of interesting details...

Nancy is still worried about the trees.

Street art along Av Solano.

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One early Sunday we walked the middle of Av Solano.  We wanted to check out all the monuments when the traffic was more peaceful.  All of the statues are of famous men in Cuenca's history. All are slated to be repaired later this year.

Here is Fray Vicente Solano.
Cuenca-born in the late 1700's, he was a Priest, journalist, writer.

Most of the statues appear to be dated in the 1950's-60's...time to repair and renovate along with the street work.

Dr Andres F Cordova.

Dr Cordova was schooled in Cuenca, then went into politics.  He was President of Ecuador in the 60's.

Dr Benigno Malo (across from the high school  named for him).
He was an educator, diplomat, politician, lawyer.

We wish we knew the story of the women on this monument.  Perhaps they were added to provide 'balance' with all the men...

We think these internal walkways will become the 3rd lanes on Av Solano.

More famous men from Cuenca's history books.
The plaques will be more readable when the renovation is done.

We think one of the statues is Remigio Crespo Toral.  (Lawyer, journalist, poet).

We caught this pic of a plane flying low over the area.  One of the first commercial flights of the day.

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Another fun picture of street entertainers on another day, another walk on another street.









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We hope all who celebrated USA's 4th of July had a fun day!  We spent the day with good friends and a lot of delicious, USA-inspired food!

A feast!  Ribs, salads, desserts and so much more.
All a little taste of past 4th's.........yum!