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"One Hundred & One Beautiful Small Towns in Mexico" (Rizzoli, $50; ISBN: 978-0-8478-3028-2)
Mexico is the 13th largest country in the world and inhabited by 59 indigenous tribes. In addition, 24 Mexican locales have been designated as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and the Mayan city of Chichen Itza recently was chosen as one of the "new" Seven Wonders of the World. All of this information and more is contained in the book's preface. And if that weren't enough, Mexico also boasts hundreds of distinctive small towns. As indicated by its title, this tome concentrates on 101 of them: colonial towns and mountain towns, tourist towns, artsy towns, mining towns and even a potter's village. Anyone is bound to be surprised by the diversity of towns profiled here. They include Santa Rosalia, where Gustave Eiffel of Eiffel Tower fame designed the Santa Barbara Church, with its French neo-Gothic-style stained-glass windows; the otherworldly Mexcaltitan, an island town in the middle of a lagoon; and Coyoacan, the home of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.
— Chicago Tribune
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