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a land of ruins," but recommended that just as the Turkish government uses the latest techniques to protect monuments such as the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul from seismic turbulence, so should it "apply the same rigorous standards to its more mundane buildings for it is upon them and their inhabitants that its future depends."
More Indian relics, plus old Spanish coins and tiles, can be viewed in the Ponce de León Museum at Caparra, 4 miles (61⁄2 km) west of San Juan on Route 2. Alongside this small white museum are the ruins of the house Ponce de León built and from which he directed the colonization of the island.
Also in southern Nanjing, you can see the ruins of the Palace of the Heavenly King (Tianqangfu), built when the forces of the Taiping Rebellion captured the city (see page 41).
Taxpayers support an irrigation system that facilitates Florida sugar growing but ruins the Everglades.
There are also busts taken from the Roman ruins at Milreu.