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changing all that had been built in the city before. Plants, flowers, animals and women's faces filled the Art
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Nieto designed the main synagogue, Or Zaruah (or Holy Light) synagogue in 1924, the
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Plaque marking the dedication of the statue of
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and followed his master's style when he designed noted projects in
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He retired in 1949 and died of a heart attack five years later.
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Edificio "La
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