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We resume our visits to colonial Jalisco with a first stop in the city of Guadalajara: In a recent series we looked at several Mexican chur...

We finish up our current series on the popular baroque churches of Puebla with a visit to the  former Franciscan church of Santiago Aposto...

San Lorenzo Chiautzingo, the church through the atrium gateway. San Lorenzo Chiautzingo is an agricultural community in southeastern Pu...

    The hillside church of San Juan Bautista Ahuacatlan (Place of Avocadoes) is also located in the misty Sierra Norte region of Pueb...

After the mid-1700s, the influential Pueblan baroque was in turn influenced by newer fashions, notably the Mexican Churrigueresque or barroc...

We continue our series on the popular baroque churches of Puebla with a visit to the  former Franciscan visita  of San Pablo de Las Tun...

Although there was primitive chapel here, dedicated to the supposed local appearance of the Archangel Michael, as early as the mid-16th ce...