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Santo Domingo del Valle (aka Díaz Ordaz) is the second of the Zapotec villages we are profiling in the Tlacolula valley of Oaxaca.    In ...

We resume our coverage of Oaxacan missions and churches, starting from the  Tlacolula  valley south of the city of Oaxaca.    J ust north...

As an addendum to our recent series on the frontier churches of Yucatán, many of which feature the carvings of the Mayan sculptor Pascual ...

Petulillo, the church front After long years of neglect, the imposing frontier church of Petulillo, on the Yucatán/Quintana Róo border...

Having described the larger frontier churches of Sabán and Sacalaca, we should not leave the Yucatán/Quintana Róo border zone without a lo...