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Puebla
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Today, Puebla is a vibrant artistic, cultural, and business center. It is home to several important museums, including the magnificent pre-Hispanic and colonial collections of the Museo Amparo. The “Casa del Escritor,” part of the Cities of Asylum Program of the International Parliament of Writers, welcomes yearly an internationally-recognized writer-in-residence and holds an extensive series of lectures and workshops open to all. The state-funded “Casa de Cultura” offers numerous workshops in the visual and performing arts. The city's "Sapos" district continues to attract artists and antique dealers. Puebla has a new convention center, a wide range of commercial facilities, and major industrial investments: Volkswagen de México operates one of the largest automobile factories in the world here.
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Puebla is Mexico's fourth largest city. It is ... perhaps its most characteristically Spanish, with lovely colonial architecture giving it great dignity and charm. Set in the Sierra Madre foothills, Puebla is flanked by four of Mexico's best-known volcanoes: Popocat petl, Iztacc huatl, Malinche and Citlalt petl or Pico de Orizaba. The "City of Tiles" is about 80 miles from Mexico City via an excellent toll road. Famous for hand-wrought tile, Puebla was the first city in New Spain to produce the Spanish ware. Spanish tile makers took up residence in Puebla and set a standard of excellence that prevails to this day.
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Puebla has a large colonial center, which is home to so many mansions, convents, and churches that it has been named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its architecture differs from that of the rest of Mexico in the extensive use of painted tiles, gold leaf, and molded plaster. Facades and walls are commonly surfaced with clay and Talavera tiles to cover the unattractive gray-black color of the local building stone. Early in the city's history, artisans from the Spanish town of Talavera settled here and established their craft of making hand-painted tiles -- a tradition the Moors originally brought to Spain in the 8th century. These tiles, along with dishes, pots, and other objects made in the same tradition, are referred to as Talavera.
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Puebla had a total population of 5,076,686 in 2000; of the total, 2,448,801 were men and 2,627,885 were women. The population density was 148 people per square kilometer (383 people per square mile). The capital, Puebla, Mexico's fourth-largest city, had a 2000 population of 1,346,176. Almost all citizens speak Spanish as their first language. About 13.1% of the population speaks indigenous (native) languages, a number that is almost twice as high as the national average of about 7%.
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During the colonial period, Puebla grew rich from the trade with Asia and Europe, and some of Mexico’s most important colonial landmarks are to be found in and around the city. Towns like Cholula and Huejotzingo are famous for their surviving sixteenth century monasteries, while the beautifully preserved heart of Puebla itself is distinguished by ornate palaces and churches from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Chapel of the Rosary in downtown Puebla and the church in the town of Santa María Tonanzintla are extraordinary examples of Mexican baroque architecture. Puebla´s noble cathedral, inspired by the Spanish palace of El Escorial, boasts the tallest towers in Mexico. The wealth of the colonial period gave rise to inventive, new dishes, like the famous “mole poblano” and “chile en nogada.” Immigrants from Asia included Japanese artisans as well as the not-so-legendary “China poblana” whose apparel inspired one of Mexico’s most famous traditional costumes. Spanish and Moorish culture is evident in the ceramics and tiles known as Talavera ware.
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The Puebla facility began production in the fall of 1991. Puebla, located approximately 100 miles from Mexico City, was recently re-grouped to be included with the rest of the North American facilities. This is a three-shift operation, producing molded resinated cotton fiber, Thermoplastic fiber and molded PU foam trays, trunk components and engine component sound insulations. Manufacturing processes include felt processing, foam line, compression molding and 3-D trimming. Current plant size is 162,000 ft2.
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