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One of the best preserved of the Tlacochahuaya altarpieces is the retablo of St. Hyacinth (San Jacinto), a popular Dominican saint. S...

For our second post on the Tlacochahuaya retablos  we look at a pair of smaller altarpieces that flank the apse beside the sanctuary ...

As noted in our first post, San Gerónimo Tlacochahuaya is the most lavishly decorated of the churches in the Valley of Oaxaca. Our main...

As planned, this is the first of a series of posts on the picturesque church of  San Gerónimo Tlacochahuaya, among the most lavishly de...

San Matías  Tepetomatitlan is a former Franciscan visita mission located just east of the city of Tlaxcala. In an earlier post we looked a...

In an earlier series * we reviewed many of the outstanding carved stone crosses of Hidalgo, a region north of Mexico City.  One exceptional ...

Before it was conquered in the mid-1470s by the Aztecs, Matlatzinco had been an independent community in the northern part of the Valley of ...