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Paseo por Mexico Former convent of San Gabriel in San Pedro Cholula

Former convent of San Gabriel in San Pedro Cholula

San Pedro Cholula, Puebla

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The convent of San Gabriel is one of the oldest in Mexico. It was built in 1549 on the ruins of the Temple of Quetzalcoatl. Years later, in February 1553, it was consecrated by Martín de Hojacastro, the third Bishop of Puebla. The convent has a neoclassical architectural style, formed by the posas chapels, the atrial wall, the temple, the atrium, the cloister, the Chapel of Natives and the chapel of the Third Order.

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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