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built its college in the contiguous curtain. In fact, the neighborhood between a religious building and a military building generated all sorts of disputes, which were finally settled by the
Spanish Crown, by order to build, on behalf of the Jesuits, a curtain of new wall a few meters ahead, leaving
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Ignacio, from where it took its current name. Later, in 1730, the engineer Juan de Herrera y Sotomayor gave the bastion of San Ignacio its present dimension and annexed a Baroque garita, while it
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