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Metropolitan Cathedral
The Metropolitan Cathedral is located in the great Zocalo Central Federal District. Throughout it´s time of construction (more than three hundred years) many styles have appeared on it´s walls. Columns of the Spanish colonial style are fused with French altarpieces, seeking a greater classicism. Its facade is one of the highlights of the baroque-style Spanish architecture in Latin America. Interestingly enough, the fusion of styles make it a architecturally unique, unpredictable and overwhelming. It´s a true symbol of Mexican identity, in its attempt to combine influences, styles and characters.
Next to it are the ruins of the old Aztec city enclave, symbolizing the attempt of the Mexican people to assert its many origins and make it´s history a complex "family album". Hint: take another walk around the walls at night. It lights up the whole square.
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