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GUANAJUATO MEXICO





Overtop the now defunct mine that at its peak of production was exporting two-thirds of the world's silver, the capital city of Guanajuato has nestled into the forgotten veins. With bits of sandstone and repurposed remnants of colonial Spanish baroque architecture, tenants constructed a subterranean city, a building process that has aggregated over centuries.