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La Catedral

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The narrative follows Gabriel Luna as he returns to his native cathedral city, walking its dawn streets and contemplating the church’s compressed exterior and sumptuous interior while recalling childhood years spent within its precincts. He observes the daily life that gathers at the temple—the devout, the beggars, the man who opens the cloister—and meditates on tensions between medieval artistry and later, wealth-driven additions. Episodes trace his schooling in the cloister, frescoed walls and local legends, combining intimate memory, vivid architectural description and social observation to portray the cathedral as both personal home and communal stage.

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