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The trades that sustain the Centro Histórico: tailors, shoemakers and locksmiths who have spent decades on the same
Before the Centro Histórico of Santa Marta became a corridor of boutique hotels and cafés for photos, its streets already smelled of shoe polish, cotton thread
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