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Postcard From Puebla

A Day in New Spain's (Once) Richest City

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David Gemeinhardt
Apr 12, 2026
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I was in Puebla earlier this week. My main aims were to visit the Biblioteca Palafoxiana and the International Museum of the Baroque, but I managed to get to several other sites, too.

Puebla is today the fourth-largest city in Mexico, located about 100km southeast of the capital. It was once the richest city in New Spain (see Versailles Century Country: …

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