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 Closing out our posts for Hispanic Heritage month, we offer a final post in our current series on Jalisco. El Cabezón, the hacienda chapel ...

Following up our previous post on the cathedral of Lagos de Moreno, we look briefly at another late colonial monument in that city. Abutting...

Set beside the San Juan river, in colonial times the provincial town of Lagos de Moreno in the Los Altos region of northeastern Jalisco pros...

As followers of this blog know, we often feature works by the eminent baroque architect and designer Felipe de Ureña * and his family. In t...

In an earlier post we described the parish church of Dolores , whose designer has also been associated with the ornate Churrigueresque faça...

Last week fire engulfed the historic church of Santa Veracruz, facing the Alameda park in the historic center of Mexico City. One of the old...

Followers of our blog know our interest in the works of Felipe de Ureña the pre-eminent 18th century architect, designer and retablista and ...