The Casa de las Ventanas de Hierro is noted for a splendid 8m-high plaster doorway and the wrought-iron grilles (brought from Seville, Spain, in 1764) across the windows. It now shelters a private collection of historic objects collected by the family over generations.
Casa de las Ventanas de Hierro
Venezuela
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