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Extract from the Santa Luca Travel Guides:
Twelve kilometres east of the capital, set amid the pine-clad mountain slopes so characteristic of the central highlands,
SANTA LUCA
is a legacy of the days when the riches to be gained from silver mining brought settlers to the area in droves. Built by the Spanish in the late sixteenth century, the fortunes of this archetypal colonial village - all whitewashed houses and red-tiled roofs set on a steep hillside - rose and fell with those of the mines. Its citizens' finest hour came in 1572, when King Felipe II, in gratitude at the stream of riches being produced, presented them with a carved wooden Crucifix. Now residing in the church...
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