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Note to moderator: Read the entire answerline and note the directed prompt. Historical or modern names acceptable. A 2020 Ana Martinez work analyzing “performance” in this place describes its role in public protest. 18,000 people posed nude in this place for a 2007 photoshoot by Spencer Tunick. Agustí Querol Subirats designed four sculptures of Pegasus that formerly decorated this place. In 1978, Eduardo Matos began excavating a site at this place after an 8.5-ton (15[1])circular stone disk representing a dismembered moon goddess was discovered. The Cruz de Mañozca is located in a church in this place whose Crypt of the Archbishops includes the resting (15[1])place of (*) Juan de Zumárraga. That cathedral in this place also holds the tilma of Juan Diego and was where a massive “sun stone” calendar was unearthed during renovations. For 10 points, a national president rings a bell used by Father Hidalgo and delivers the Cry of Dolores every year in what central square of Mexico City? (0[2])■END■

ANSWER: Zócalo of Mexico City [accept Plaza de la Constitución or Constitution Square; accept Plaza Mayor of Mexico City; accept Plaza de Armas of Mexico City; accept Templo Mayor; prompt on Zócalo or Plaza de Armas or Plaza Mayor before “Mexico” is read by asking “in which city?”]
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