colonialmexico

As noted before, our current focus is on several 17th century buildings of distinction in the city of Puebla.    First we looked at the mans...

This month our focus is on several 17th century buildings of distinction in the city of Puebla. First the mansion known as La Casa de Las Bo...

Oaxtepec is best known for its early Dominican priory , but the other early colonial monument of importance here, now largely in ruins, was ...

In our previous post we explored the churchyard crosses of Tulpetlac, north of Mexico City. Here we look at the reliefs and statues of angel...

This is the first of two posts on the stone sculptures of Tulpetlac, in Mexico State (edomex) Once an important Aztec center, Tulpetlac ( Pl...

In a previous post we looked at the colonial church in Pilcaya , Guerrero. In this post we visit another church in that state, that of Asun...

For this post we return to Chiapas to revisit the great ruined monastery at Copanaguastla; among the most evocative 16th century monuments i...