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Facade of the Former Mármoles Molina Shop in Madrid, Spain

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Facade of the Former Mármoles Molina Shop in Madrid, Spain
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Tucked into an ordinary street near Madrid’s Plaza Mayor is a façade that seems to have survived by sheer stubbornness. Wedged between apartment blocks on Calle Concepción Jerónima, its arches, columns, shells, and carved coat of arms look more like the entrance to a forgotten palace than a former marble shop. Yet this elaborate fragment once belonged to Mármoles Molina, a business that made tombstones, niches, and funerary monuments.
When the original building was demolished to make way for a t

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