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Another striking nearby visita of Metztitlan is that at Jilotla. Set within a large walled and paved atrium, the small church or chapel ...

In an earlier series of posts we looked at the great Augustinian priory of Santos Reyes Metztitlan and its many dependencies * .    In thi...

Set on a commanding site backing into the hillside,  San Pedro Amajatlan is another visita *   of Metztitlan  modeled after the main prio...

For the final addition to our recent series on the chapels of Jalisco we go  to the lake country  south of Guadalajara.    San Francisco Z...

Behind the unexceptional facade of this 17th century church in the Xochimilco region of Mexico City rests a late colonial altarpiece of sp...

We add to our previous posts * on the crosses of Puebla, with this example at  Ixtapalucan, l ocated in the tongue of northwestern Puebla....

Complementing our series on Mexican stone crosses, we also take note of a related category, that of colonial crucifixes or sculpted stone fi...