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The Desert Speaks
Heart of a Pueblo
Season 15
Episode 1503
Renowned architect Bob Vint travels with host David Yetman to explore pre-Hispanic to modern plazas and examine their unifying characteristics. Travel from Chichen Itza to one of the world’s largest plazas in Mexico City. Then discover how courtyards are to the home as plazas are to the town and uncover how plazas were used by people in the New World thousands of years before Spanish contact.
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