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Woman takes picture inside exhibition "Argentina - The gaucho, Tradition, Art and Faith" at St. Peter's Square at the Vatican

Gaucho exhibition at Vatican a tribute to pope's homeland

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Gauchos, the legendary Argentine cowboys from the vast Pampas of Pope Francis's homeland, are being celebrated in a rare exhibition in no less a place than St. Peter's Square. Called "Argentina - The Gaucho, Tradition, Art and Faith," it opened on Friday in the Braccio Carlo Magno exhibition space under the square's left colonnade. But the pope, who is e…

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