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As an addendum to our previous post on Santa Ana de la Joya, we look briefly at its ruined companion church of San Nicolás. Now abandoned a...

The third in our survey of Chihuahua churches with painted ceilings is the modest church of Santa Ana de la Joya, near Satevó. Like the othe...

For the next in our series on the churches of Chihuahua with painted ceilings, we go to Santa Rosa de Lima Cusihuiriachi. In 1687, a major s...

In the coming weeks we look at colonial structures of interest from border states at either end of Mexico: Chihuahua in the north and Chiapa...

In this post we return to central Puebla and  the parish church of San Diego Huejotzingo .  In a previous post we described a pair of side ...

We cannot leave Ixtacamaxtitlan without a mention of its most unusual monument, the chapel of Tlacomulco, perched on a high local peak.  Fou...

Next in our series of posts on the churches of northern Puebla we consider the conventual church of San Francisco  Ixtacamaxtitlan . The for...