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Potosí
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Said to be the highest city in the world, lofty Potosí (
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) once sat upon a
land laden with silver that funded the Spanish empire for centuries. Though the mines now
lay all but barren and the city has long been in economic decline, the remnants of the
wealthy past can still be seen through the cracked brickwork of the ornate colonial-era
buildings and wonderfully preserved churches. Potosí's most famous museum, the Casa de
la Moneda, was once Bolivia's national mint and offers a fascinating insight into the rise
and fall of a city that once described itself as 'the envy of kings.'
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