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    Nepal’s medieval masterpiece

    Feb 27, 2020 2 minutes

    Window seat of power

    he intricately carved wooden frames of the 55 Window Palace gaze out over Bhaktapur’s Durbar (Palace) Square to the elegant 17th-century Siddhi Laxmi Temple (centre), recently restored after its destruction by the devastating 2015 earthquake. The city was founded in the 12th

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