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 The Tecpan This 16th century structure, also known as La Tercena or Cabildo de Indios, is located down the hill from the grand priory...

St. Helen, the mother of Constantine the Great, is remembered, according to tradition, as the discoverer of the true cross, unearthed near J...

San Francisco Tzintzuntzan  Portraits of saints, martyrs and other notables, both biblical and connected to the religious orders, aboun...

We close our current series on Yucatán, Then and Now , with a look at the recently restored village church of Ticuch in eastern Yucatán. ...

Some time ago we looked at images of the restored altarpieces at  Yaxcabá .  Recently we reviewed some of our much earlier pictures, taken ...

One of more distinctive colonial churches in Yucatan is the fortress church of Santa Elena Nohcacab,   an  imposing  regional landmark loca...

San Cristóbal de Mérida in 1860 San Cristóbal  Southeast of the zócalo or main plaza in Mérida, opposite its own expansive park, stan...