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Tlalixtac San Miguel Tlalixtac, located south of the city of Oaxaca, is best known as the birthplace of Miguel Cabrera, the prolific m...

We continue our Oaxaca series with a look at some of the lesser known churches we visited last February.     One of the more remote plac...

Tlaxiaco From prehistoric times Tlaxiaco, located in the Mixteca region of northern Oaxaca, has straddled the main trade route from the Va...

Tejupan: The Altarpieces Like Yanhuitlan , the church is remarkable for its rich variety of colonial altarpieces and works of a...

Another of the churches we visited during the Historic Organ Festival was that of the early Dominican mission of Santiago Tejupan in the Mi...

Tlacolula, the church nave Tlacolula: the church Compared to the Silver Chapel, the ornamentation of the main church seems rather d...