Word: parroquia
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Borda built palaces for himself in Taxco, Cuernava.ca, Mexico City; he built a paved road all the way across the mountains to the capital; and for $1,680,000 he built Taxco's lovely pink parroquia, particularly interesting among Mexico's colonial churches because it was completed by the men who began it. Borda, a heavy speculator, went broke several times before he went broke for good. But when he was in his prime Taxco was an important trading town on the transcontinental camino real, along which the trade of Spain and the Orient was transshipped. The gold...
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