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Of these only the dry tropical forest and central lowlands look happy. Your fee includes
a guided tour, where you'll see a
madriño,
the national tree, and
sacuanjoche,
the national
flower.
ART GALLERY
Epikentro Gallery
(
www.epikentrogallery.com
;
Canal 2, 2c N, 2c O)
Straddling the divide between fine and con-
temporary art.
ART GALLERY
Galeria Praxis
OFFLINE MAP
GOOGLE MAP
( 2266 3563; uniondeartesplasticos@yahoo.es; Embajada de Alemania, 1c O, 1c N;
10am-5:30pm Mon-Fri, to 2pm Sat)
A fine collection of contemporary art at this artist-run col-
lective.
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Plaza de la Revolución & El Malecón
This quiet collection of pre-earthquake and post-revolutionary monuments, parks, mu-
seums and government offices was once the pulsing heart of Managua; the
malecón
(pier),
a pleasant stroll from the Plaza de la Revolución, once overlooked a living lake lined with
restaurants and festivities. Then came the 1972 earthquake, and two decades of war and
privation, and the center was all but abandoned.
But slowly - little by little, as they say in Nicaragua - it is being resuscitated. Govern-
ment buildings have been rebuilt and trees replanted, and ramshackle restaurants once
again host cheerful after-church crowds on the lakefront.
