Sentences with 'plaza'
Example sentences and phrases with the word plaza and other words derived from it.
• « In the sunken plaza of the Old Temple of Chavín de Huantar (Central Andes, Peru), a stone carving 1300 years B.C. was found with a serpentine-haired figure, jaguar fangs, an amphisbena -reptil- as a belt and eagle claws holding a San Pedro cactus (Trichocereus pachanoi). »
• « The new governors left the cabildo building and crossed the plaza to the Fort, where they took up their residence. Their passage was greeted with peals of bells and salvoes of artillery. »
• « On 14 September 1847, Scott entered the central plaza of Mexico City; the city had fallen. While Polk and other expansionists demanded "all of Mexico", the Mexican government and the United States negotiated peace in 1848, resulting in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. »