El Salvador Gallery

Cathedral of Our Lady Saint Anne in Santa Ana, El Salvador, Central America

The Cathedral of Our Lady Saint Anne is a neo-Gothic cathedral located in Santa Ana, El Salvador, located at the center square of the city, across the street from the city hall and next to the Teatro of Santa Ana. Designed to look like a Gothic cathedral, construction began on January 21, 2001, and it was consecrated on February 11, 2015

© Christian Kober

Christopher Columbus landing in America 1492

Steel engraving of Christopher Columbus arriving in America 1492
Columbus called the island ( in what is now the Bahamas ) San Salvador (meaning "Holy Savior"); the natives called it Guanahani.
Original edition from my own archives
Source : "Allgemeine Weltgeschichte" 1898

© Ralf Hettler

Coat of arms of American countries, lithograph, published 1897

Historical coat of arms of American countries: 1) Dominican Republic; 2) United States of America; 3) Haiti; 4) Nicaragua; 5) Argentina; 6) Chile; 7) Paraguay; 8) El Salvador; 9) Bolivia; 10) Brazil; 11) Ecuador; 12) Costa Rica; 13) Mexico; 14) Guatemala; 15) Colombia; 16) Uruguay; 17) Peru; 18) Venezuela; 19) Honduras. Lithograph after a drawing by Hugo Gerard Strohl (Austrian heraldist, 1851 - 1919), published in 1897