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Directly across from the Kumari Bahal stands the incongruous white Grecian facade of a palace wing that was built in 1908 by Prime Minister Chandra Shumshere, a Rana responsible for the Singha Durbar and many of the city’s neoclassical edifices.
The incongruous high-rise blot on the landscape directly opposite is the massive Hotel Dom Pedro, rather out-of-place in this low-key town, but an indicator of its tourism ambitions.
Across the street is the incongruous but elegant Toyota Automobile Showroom, once the Chamber of Commerce and worth noting for its fine blue-and-white azulejo (tile) vignettes that depict scenes from old Madeira.
The key to the effect is that the various "centers" are nearly always incongruous.
Laundry adorns disintegrating balconies, while in the center of the plaza an incongruous, neoclassical gleaming marble fountain has been installed (it’s an unmitigated disaster in this atmospheric corner of Old Havana).
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