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Pueblo Culhuacán (modern Nahuatl pronunciation ⓘ) is an officially designated neighborhood of the Iztapalapa borough of Mexico City, which used to be a major pre-Hispanic city. Ancient Culhuacán was founded around 600 CE and the site has been continuously occupied since.
In many towns of present-day Mexico, 16th-century churches exist with identifiable architectural characteristics, often rising above the surrounding population due to their height. Many of these churches were built on Mesoamerican teocallis (sacred pyramids), as seen in Texcoco, Tlaxcala, Huejotzingo, Cholula, Tula, and Huexotla. This was done ...
The first city council in Mexico was established by Hernán Cortés in 1519 in Veracruz; it was also the first in the American mainland. [7] Settlements located in strategic locations received the status of ciudad (the highest status within the Empire, superior to that of villas and pueblos ) and were entitled to form an ayuntamiento or ...
The Emperor Maximilian Memorial Chapel is a small Roman Catholic chapel located on the Cerro de las Campanas (Hill of the Bells) in Querétaro City in central Mexico. It is dedicated to the memory of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico , and was built on the spot where the Emperor and two of his generals were executed on 19 June 1867.
The Basilica of Santa María de Guadalupe, officially called Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Santa María de Guadalupe (in English: Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe) is a basilica of the Catholic Church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary in her invocation of Our Lady of Guadalupe, located at the foot of the Hill of Tepeyac in the Gustavo A. Madero borough of Mexico City.
RECTORIA SAN JOSÉ Campana y Canizales C.P.82000 Mazatlán, Sin. Col. Centro Tel. 669) 981-3545 Iglesia de San José La Iglesia Católica más antigua del puerto fue edificada a partir de 1837 y se inaguró en el año 1842. Está construida de adobe crudo enjarrado,tiene una torre de un solo
Tepatitlán de Morelos is a city and municipality founded in 1530, in the central Mexican state of Jalisco.It is located in the area known as Los Altos de Jalisco (the 'Highlands of Jalisco'), about 70 km east of state capital Guadalajara.
[2] [3] [4] The current complex was built in the 1540s, beginning with the Capilla Real in 1540. [5] The main church was begun in 1549, with the first stone laid by Martín de Hojacastro, who would become the third bishop of Puebla. [6] There is also a third chapel by the name of the Capilla de la Tercera Orden and a cloister. [4]