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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ladybranch, post: 117857, member: 44&quot;]I visited it in 1964. Though it was grimy, I was truly impressed with it and it&#039;s Blitz history. When I heard it was cleaned in the 70s, I was hoping some day to get back to London to see it again. I haven&#039;t yet. During that same trip did the Sistine Chapel. Needless to say I was awe struck. I have see pics of it after it was &quot;cleaned&quot; and heard all sorts of negative reports. I **do not** want to see the Chapel again. I want to remember it as it was before the cleaning.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of all the cathedrals around the world, the churches and chapels I&#039;ve been the most impressed with are the surviving Spanish missions in Texas built in the 1600s to the 1700s. There are trails of them. Their simplicity is wonderful, inside and out. These missions were not only churches but communities. I don&#039;t want to get political about them for do know that some of them may?? have used the NAs as slave labor, but must of them did not.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mission San Juan Capistrano in **Texas**, not the one in California. Following are pics of it&#039;s exterior before being restored and interior.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]29751[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]29752[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Mission San Francisco De La Espada</p><p>[ATTACH=full]29753[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]29754[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The following site has a good slide show of 4 Texas Spanish Missions:</p><p><a href="http://loscompadres.org/the-missions" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://loscompadres.org/the-missions" rel="nofollow">http://loscompadres.org/the-missions</a></p><p><br /></p><p>History of the Spanish Missions:</p><p><a href="http://texasalmanac.com/topics/history/spanish-missions-texas" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://texasalmanac.com/topics/history/spanish-missions-texas" rel="nofollow">http://texasalmanac.com/topics/history/spanish-missions-texas</a></p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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