Historic Inner City of Paramaribo

Stunning Architectural Beauty

Walking around the Historic Inner Ciity of Paramaribo was a definite highlight on my trip to Suriname. The old buildings, some of them being built in the 1600's, were beautiful! Many of the buildings ...

One could do better maintaining some of the buildings

Everybody coming to Suriname knows about Paramaribo's unique historic inner city. It is a UNESCO world heritage site which due to the architecture of the buildings is well deserved. Although there is ...

A collection of old wooden buildings

This is a capitol city with about 250,000 people so it not surprising there are no skyscrapers here. I went to see the UNESCO inner city but was not particularly impressed. Others have posted photos s...

Go see it before it is gone! UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The historic inner city of Paramaribo is full of wooden colonial houses in various stages of neglect and dilapidation. Beautiful in its decay. Hopefully through private and some government funding it ...

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Beschermd door de UNESCO voor de koloniale architectuur, biedt het historische centrum van Paramaribo spectaculaire kortingen, met houten huizen rijk aan balkons met houten kolommen. Maar ontbreekt compl...