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Baroque Decoration
A large part of Latin American sculpture was created for the decoration of churches and other buildings. The ornate plasterwork on this colorful facade is in Puebla, which is one of the oldest colonial settlements in Mexico.
Tono Labra/age fotostock
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Mexico; Puebla (city, Mexico); Latin American Architecture; Puebla (state, Mexico); Latin American Sculpture; Spanish Empire
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