Puebla's indigenous Analco neighborhood — settled before the Spanish arrival by Tlaxcalan allies of Hernán Cortés — has developed a street art culture that explicitly references the neighborhood's pre-Hispanic Nahua identity through murals in geometric patterns derived from indigenous textile and pottery traditions. The Analco murals are the most historically self-aware street art project in any Mexican colonial city.
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