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CATA  The elegant La Valenciana facade is reinterpreted in a more popular idiom at the smaller, but no less ornate silver chapel of  E...

The interior of La Valenciana outshines the exterior in its opulence. Beneath lush rococo rib vaults, arabesque shell niches alternate ...

Concerned as much with their immortal souls as with the future of Mexico, the colonial aristocracy fervently believed in pious works, princi...

Santa Cruz de Tlaxcala This is the second of two posts on the arts of Santa Cruz de Tlaxcala. In our first post we looked at the various...

This is the first of two posts on the arts of Santa Cruz de Tlaxcala:   Santa Cruz Tlaxcala In addition to the eponymous bejeweled cr...

We continue our series on Tlaxcalan carved stone crosses with a look at an atypical atrium cross at San Juan Huactzinco, in the southern c...