colonialmexico

Tetiz Second only to the Virgin of Izamal , the Virgin of Tetiz today enjoys the greatest devotion of any marian santo in Yucatan. Ther...

As a follow up to our post on the city of Oaxaca , we look at a selection of colonial baptismal and holy water fonts found in regional chur...

View of San Francisco Tochimilco (© Felipe Falcón) Tochimilco   Field of Rabbits The picturesque Franciscan m onastery  of San Fr...

We resume our series on water with a look at selected fonts and fountains in colonial Mexico: As we saw in our previous post s, some of t...

In this second post on San Nicolas Oxtoticipac, we look at some of the art works inside the church and its adjacent convento.  We start wit...

In earlier posts we looked at the church of San Nicolás del Obispo in Michoacán.    Now, in a two part series, w e visit another early m...