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To wind up our current series, we visit another partially restored mission  in the less traveled Zoque speaking region of northern Chiapas...

For our last two posts on lesser known Chiapas missions we move to the northern Zoque  region of the state. Chapultenango "Place of...

In our previous post we visited the ruined Dominican mission of Soyatitán , located on the old colonial Camino Real in Chiapas.      Here...

For our final posts on Chiapas, we look at several less well known   pueblos-de-indios  missions founded by the Dominicans at strategic poin...

The 1770s were a time of great trials in colonial Chiapas. Repeated infestations of locusts decimated crops and threatened famine. In 1773 a...

We follow our posts on the altarpieces of Chiapas with a look at two unusual and historical paintings in other churches of San Cristóbal de ...