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Paseo por Mexico Royal or native chapel in San Pedro Cholula

Royal or native chapel in San Pedro Cholula

San Pedro Cholula, Puebla

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The Royal Chapel is a temple built by indigenous hands with a square floor plan, built on the site of the old temple to Quetzalcoatl, consisting of 7 naves of equal width, except for the central one which is wider. The supports are octagonal pillars, but both the capitals and the bases are Doric with classical profiles. In total there are 12 columns, 24 octagonal pilaster strips, 12 supports that lead to the 49 domes and 14 chapels with groin vaults.

Municipality

San Pedro Cholula is a municipality in the state of Puebla and is part of the Cholula Valley, which is located in the central-western part of the state of Puebla, it has various architectural structures such as the Archaeological Zone of Cholula, which belonged to the Olmec culture. Ximeca in the middle preclassical period, the former convent of San Gabriel, has a colonial-type architecture in a Gothic-type rococo style, the Chapel of the Remedies, almost all year round the saints of its devotion are celebrated in the neighborhoods with rockets, candles , dances, floral arrangements, masses and processions, they have a House of Culture located in the center of this municipality, where temporary exhibitions of paintings, paintings, etc. are

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