1.  Both the Cuadra and Cardenal families were pillars of the Conservative party, which was based in Granada, a stately colonial city on the shore of Lake Nicaragua.

2.  All will gather Thursday for a reunion in Williamsburg, Va., the restored colonial city that served as the British capital and the capital of Virginia.

3.  But Woollahra, one of the early settlements of the colonial city, has retained its original terrace houses, shady trees and village atmosphere.

4.  Cuba, for example, recently began selling packages combining a vacation on its beaches with a flight to Guatemala to visit Mayan sites and colonial cities.

5.  It has rain forests, too, and old Colonial cities.

6.  It is not hard to believe the tales that locals tell of this colonial city.

7.  One service, Expreso Maya, offers a chance to visit Mayan archaeological sites, Spanish colonial cities and lush jungles in the Yucatan and southern Mexico.

8.  We see what many guidebooks call the best-preserved Spanish colonial city in Latin America.

9.  Bolivia, which hosted the summit in this colonial city located near its drug producing region, is the second-largest cocaine producer in the world.

10.  But Bishop Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel made it clear during his inaugural Mass attended by thousands of Roman Catholics in this colonial city that he does not support violence.