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services, a children's room, an area for people with visual disabilities, a gallery for exhibitions, the recovery of circulation and a comprehensive use of space in an environment of great architectural attractiveness. The new architectural intervention was carried out by the
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style and sober ornamentation in keeping with the time in which it was built, and due to the solidity of its structure that gives it an appearance of a fortress, it was the scene of several political and military pronouncements such as the cuartelazo of 1913, pronounced by the anti-Maderista forces
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In 2011, Conaculta had the purpose of restoring and returning the construction to its former splendor and giving way to La
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