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Monument de los Heroes

Climb up the steep staircase behind La Casona to reach a lookout point with a stunning view of three volcanoes. The monument itself was built to honor the heroes of the two important battles that took place in this vicinity – the defeat of William Walker's filibusteros in 1856 and the repelling of a separate Nicaraguan invasion in 1919.

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