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View looking towards downtown from the Sapphire Princess of Puerto Vallarta's beachfront high rises. Victor, our tour guide, and a lifelong resident of Puerto Vallarta, lamented the intrusion of this new kind of architecture, which he referred to as "Miamification".
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Fountain in the median of a broad avenue.
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Plentiful statues along Puerto Vallarta's boardwalk (El Malecon).
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Beaded vest featuring Our lady of Guadalupe on this
Papantla Flyer.
Papantla Flyers on Puerto Vallarta's Malecon.
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Statues.
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Bahia de las Banderas.
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Left: A statue of Jalisco's noted governor (and PV's namesake),
Ignacio Luis Vallarta.
Below: The cathedral (dating from a surprisingly-recent 1916).
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Tiled staircase (Mundo de Azulejos).
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Making new pieces (Mundo de Azulejos).
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Painting a piece to be fired (Mundo de Azulejos).
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Conejo Grande (Mundo de Azulejos).
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Street scene (Mundo de Azulejos).
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'El Tio Sam' - A store in Puerto Vallarta capitalizing on the imagery of Uncle Sam. Particularly since the modern symbol came into use in World War I,
Uncle Sam has become a patriotic symbol in the United States, but in Mexico it has no such status and thus has apparently become a commercial symbol.
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