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Demolition

The cathedral was demolished in 1968 under the pretext that it was structurally unsound. The decision was widely criticized. Etzel points out that it took "numerous loads of dynamite" to demolish the structure, questioning its lack of structural integrity.^[1]

The dynamiting of the old Matriz scored a sign of strength, due to the symbolic content that expressed the tensions between the old and the new, the provincial and the metropolitan, the conservatism and the progressive, the traditional and the modern that antagonized Cuiabá society.
— Júlio De Lamonica Freire, Por uma poética popular da arquitetura (1997)^[2]^: 127^A

Footnote

A.^ In Portuguese: "A dinamitação da velha Matriz ganhou força de signo, pelo conteúdo simbólico expresso nas tensões entre o velho e o novo, o provinciano e o metropolitano, o conservantismo e o progressista, o tradicional e o moderno que antagonizavam a sociedade cuiabana."

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