In the outskirts of Quito

A city in the middle of the world
A monument in the middle of the planet. A sign Announces That the latitude 0 °. A yellow line two That Separates Hemispheres: the north and the south, Then You Just Need to take a step to enter in one Leaving the Other One, in an unique experience That Can Happen only in the middle of the World, Picturesque “city” of colonial reminiscences, Located in the outskirts of Quito, capital of Ecuador.

The planet is a heavy brass globe Rests in the summit of an Immense monument, But It Does not rotate, it is immobile, maybe caught in the Highest point of this discreet, Picturesque city, Almost unreal, with houses of colonial shades STI, STI temple wrapped by the sober silence of the Faith and Dozens of streets That little join, mix or entangle, pero They always take you to the middle of the World.
“Here, the people, the animals and the objects, Their shadow to lose couple of times a year”, combing historical beard and smiling with enigma and mystery, one of the Few Inhabitants of Middle of the World, the city of the latitude 0 ° , According To the studies of the members of the Academy of Sciences of France That, in 1736, Carried out a geodesic expedition to Ecuador.
Silence. The man looks at the sky, the brass world, the balconies and chocolate color, the boulevard with the brass busts of all the scientists’ of the expedition Among Them brass-Charles de la Condamine and Pierre Bouguer – and to the mischievous Children That “fly” above a yellow line; Then I stops smiling fragile and breaks the silence:
“Here one just to take a step Need to Be in the north hemisphere or in the south hemisphere” … and the Children in Their Hemispheric continue flights around the monument to the equatorial line That is the heart of the “City of Half the World” complex, Located Less Than 30 kilometers from Quito.
North to south, south to north. Boys Do not stop to jump from one side to the Other of the yellow line. They pant, sweat and laugh, when to seeing Their shadows dancing in the cement of the city. “That Would Not Happen DURING the Equinox of March 21st and September 21st,” says the solitary inhabitant That Is Not Long beard combing historical Neither smiling enigmatically.
“In Those Days Neither Neither the people project a shadow objects. It is a very strange phenomenon”, the voice goes out, the man Vanishes; Suddenly, the din Tremendous, a photographic shooting of clicks starts next to the colossal 30 meters high monument STI with 5 tons terraqueous globe built in 1979, According To Luis G. Tufiño design (1936). And the shooting Expands to the north hemisphere, and There Are more clicks in the south hemisphere Until an isolated click, with a smile included, pointing to the little signs That reads: latitude 0 ° 0’0 “Western Longitude of Greenwich 78 ° 27’28 “… and There is Not More Than remedy to recharge the camera, Because “One Can Not Be in Middle of the World and That There Is Often enough time left to visit the boulevard, the balconies and the tiles … and So Many more details.”