[list for me] cities that had loads of colonial buildings in them

Aldo

Lemme define wtf I mean first:

There was a time when practically the whole world was owned by Western European nations. From San Francisco to Cape Good Hope to Sidney to Bombay to Tel Aviv to Mogadishu ... In a lot of big cities the Europeans built monuments, castles, palaces, train stations and so on and so forth. After the Europeans were kicked out the fate of these buildings depended on the new rulers.

In Batavia/Jakarta the dictator destroyed everything related to the Dutch, while in other places the old palaces were used by the new rulers to live/work in. Yet in other places everything was preserved or even used as tourist attractions (Goa, India for example).

Now I've already got a few places around the world where a lot of these buildings were/are and I am looking for more places.

• A few haciendas in California
• Goa, India (Old Portuguese buildings)
• Bombay/Mumbai, India (see Slumdog Millionaire, all the scenes in the English train station)
• Delhi (old colonial palace of the Brits I believe)
• Batavia/Jakarta (Old Dutch district completely wrecked)
• Eritrea (Italian buildings, probably wrecked by decades of war, famine and civil strive)
• Australia (I know there's some old redbrick buildings in some towns that are well-preserved, but I forgot where I read about it or what town it was)
• ...

If you know of more places, please lemme know. Bonus points if you know if the government/local population is trying to preserve these buildings.

Fantasma

Hello,

You can find many structures built by the Spanish Empire in the following places:

1. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (Old Colonial Zone)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_Colonial_(Santo_Domingo)

2. Queretaro, Mexico (including a large aqueduct built by a Spanish Lord) that provides water to the city.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quer%C3%A9taro,_Quer%C3%A9taro

http://www.west.net/~rperry/West%20Mexico/aqueduct.html

matt has a problem

Williamsburg, VA and Charleston, SC come to mind. I mean heck, Williamsburg has an entire section called "Colonial Williamsburg".

Boston and the surrounding areas, too.

Grid System

Quebec City

Edit: Lots of preservation and continuous use of the buildings, obviously.

Iceman.USAF

matthasaproblem wrote: »

Williamsburg, VA and Charleston, SC come to mind. I mean heck, Williamsburg has an entire section called "Colonial Williamsburg".

Boston and the surrounding areas, too.

I imagine like 90% of the New England area has some type of building you could use.

wmelon

St. Augustine, FL as well.

humble

Halifax, Nova Scotia has a ton of heritage buildings
the government and local population also protect them furiously

Enc

If you want to go way old school colonialism, St. Augustine in Florida still has the fort from the original colony along with a historic section of buildings from the Spanish Period. It's certainly no Montevideo, but there are a bunch of buildings.

On that note: Montevideo, Uruguay is almost entirely Spanish Colonial architecture, though we're talking from the late 1800s to 1950s.

Pandion

Buenos Aires has alot of the old style European buildings. Go there sooner rather than later though as many were looking rather worn down when I went in 2003.

Aldo

Awesome, keep em coming please.

I'm trying to start researching colonial heritage in Pondicherry, India so I am looking for other places where the local population has stuff like a statue of Jeanne D'Arc in their backyard and see how they are treating it.

So developing countries sounded the most interesting to me when I made this thread, but all these buildings in the US makes me realise that the USA is a very interesting case as well, I'm sure there has been lots of research done on that as well, so that might be a nice way to approach the subject.