1.   A placard announcing a campaign rally at the downtown plaza.

2.   A scattering of ambulant vendors can be found on the downtown plaza.

3.   At another downtown plaza skateboarders and police regularly play a game of cat-and-mouse.

4.   After the televised confrontation, hundreds of union members, neighborhood leaders and other PRI sympathizers were bused to a downtown plaza to cheer for Labastida.

5.   Brick and wood buildings housing restaurants, antiques and gift shops climb up a few narrow streets radiating from the downtown plaza.

6.   Chic bistros and shops selling everything from hand-painted Tuscan dinner plates to sun-dried tomato chutney ring the handsome downtown plaza.

7.   Over the years, Botero has also donated several large sculptures to his hometown, and they are prominently displayed in downtown plazas and have become local landmarks.

8.   San Jose del Cabo is quieter, more traditional, with a traditional downtown plaza.

9.   Sign-wielding union workers jammed a downtown plaza named for President John F. Kennedy.

10.   The bodies are hauled by truck to Milan and dumped in a downtown plaza, where they are beaten and spat upon.