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We follow our series on eastern Yucatán * with a look at two early missions nearer to Mérida the colonial capital to the west.    The rambl...

As an addendum to our recent series on the churches of eastern Yucatán, another worthwhile detour  is to Espita,  "Leaping Water,"...

 Our attention was recently drawn to this little hilltop chapel of unknown date dedicated to St Bernard of Clairvaux—an unusual dedication i...

The  imposing  west front of the priory church at Ixmiquilpan is one of a broad series of  classic,  Augustinian   Renaissance Plateresque...

 In an earlier post we looked at the superb carved cross in the atrium at Mapethé. Here we turn our attention to the opulent baroque altarp...

In addition to the former visitas  of the great Augustinian priory of Metztitlan that we described earlier , there are a number of lesser c...

In this post we return to Hidalgo to look at the conventual church of Santa Monica near Epazoyucan . The church is all that remains of a 16t...