Those with umbrellas have put them up; those without were sent scurrying for shelter under the 284 colonnades that flank the square, built from marble and travertine by architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the 17th century.
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NBC News,
NBC news,
7 May 2025
Long, wide windows overlooked a colonnade of palm trees.
Or are Allende’s grandes alamedas still beckoning all these years later?
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Ariel Dorfman,
The New York Review of Books,
31 Aug. 2023
But what has resonated most, the words that adorn hundreds of monuments erected in plazas, streets, and playgrounds across the world, is his prophecy that someday the grandes alamedas, the great avenues lined with trees, would open for the free people of tomorrow to walk through.
—
Ariel Dorfman,
The New York Review of Books,
31 Aug. 2023
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