colonialmexico

The Crosses Among the many colonial artifacts at Tepeapulco is an extraordinary group of carved limestone crosses, all believed to date f...

Continuing our illustrated series on early Mexican monasteries, we present the first of three posts on San Francisco Tepeapulco, an importan...

San José Tula, the cloister The Convento The convento is earlier, more modest and less refined than the later church at Tula. Altho...

We continue with our series on the early monasteries of Hidalgo with a look at one of the largest, San José Tula, located near the  site of ...

On a trip to document the carved stone crosses of the Mexico City area, we visited the singular church of Santa María Tepepan, near Xochimil...