Sentence examples for colonial monuments from inspiring English sources

The two most prominent colonial monuments in Santo Domingo are the cathedral and the palace of Diego Columbus.

Colonial monuments include the Alden House (1653; last home of John and Priscilla Alden), the Standish Monument State Reservation (a granite viewing tower built in 1898 and renovated in 1988), and the Old Burying Ground, with the graves of Standish and Alden.

Ghosh's disdain for a prize tainted by the "memorialisation of empire" (and whose winner has an audience with the Queen) appears to draw little sympathy in Kolkata, however; there is even a lobby to conserve colonial monuments left to peel and fade by patriotic ministers since independence.

On many occasions, I have found black South Africans defending colonial monuments in private conversation, but they are not likely to broadcast their opinion for fear of marginalization and reprisals, especially in spaces like university campuses where the monument issue has become highly politicized.

In between the extremities are moderates from all racial groups, some of whom suggest that colonial monuments should be retained for educational reasons, to remind us where we have come from, while others recommend relocation to museums, re-contextualization or redesign.

Earlier this year red paint was poured over a German colonial monument in the town of Swakopmund.

As such, they represent a sort of Viking-era "colonial" monument.

During the Historic Center Festival, March 6 to 31, most of the colonial-era monuments and plazas in and around the Zócalo, including the Palace of Fine Arts and the Metropolitan Cathedral, will have concerts, plays, dances, art shows and children's activities.

Public monuments in colonial Nairobi were visual links to the British empire, and served as a means of asserting imperial power.

In the late 1800s, when the Panama Canal was first being planned, the area was the site of some grand architectural monuments to colonial power.

The #RhodesMustFall campaign sparked a wave of statue defacements throughout South Africa (the Botha statues in Durban and Cape Town included) and gave fresh impetus to the national debate about colonial and apartheid-era monuments.