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We stopped in the small town of Yuriria to visit a shrine built in 1550.The shrine is huge, a cathedral in all but name.  It was also in pretty much the same state it was in when the Spanish finished building it around 1590.  The main doors looked like they'd been hung in 1590 and never closed since.  It's amazing that the Spanish were this deep in the interior, building projects of this scope, only 58 years after Columbus stumbled into the Caribbean.