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Windows, streets, gateways, and more doors

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On my last visit to the Old Town, I started taking pictures of windows. This next one made me laugh: a non-window. There's no way onto the balcony. Perhaps there was a round window once. But I soon abandoned my focus on fenestration (I've always wanted an excuse to use that word!). There were doors, entryways, balconies! (Beth was so taken with this little house, which is for sale, that she looked it up. Two bedrooms, loaded with charm, and yours for a cool half-million.) Everywhere you look, there's a jaw-dropping architectural detail. Some of the photo-worthy bits I saw are on  hotels, inns, and churches, one was a government building (Spanish government, that is), and some are on private homes. Some date to late in the first Spanish period (1565-1763), though those have been altered and/or added onto. Some were built later, some when this was a Gilded Age winter playground, and some are just built in a vaguely Spani