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The Historian · Bruno · Mexico City

Palacio de Bellas Artes

Centro Histórico · Historic Theatre & Museum · $

Díaz began this palace to prove Mexico was European. The Revolution stopped it mid-build. It reopened Art Deco — the regime that ordered it was gone.

The Porfiriato's marble dream, begun in 1904 and finished in 1934 after a revolution interrupted it — Art Nouveau outside, Deco within.

— Bruno, The Historian
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