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Paseo por Mexico House of the Eagle Knight in San Pedro Cholula

House of the Eagle Knight in San Pedro Cholula

San Pedro Cholula, Puebla

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Its name comes from the two bas-reliefs that combine pre-Hispanic and Plateresque motifs that stand out at its main entrance. This building is one of the oldest preserved civil constructions of New Spain in the Cholula region, as its ground floor dates back to the 16th century. In the 17th century, the upper floor facing the Plaza de la Concordia was built. The rest of the building and its ornamentation were completed in later stages.

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

Festivities

Almost all year long, the neighborhoods celebrate the saints they are dedicated to with rockets, candles, dances, flower arrangements, masses and processions. The most sumptuous is that of the Virgen de los Remedios, which takes place from September 1 to 8. Currently, the Expo-Fair Cholula is held from October 11 to 26. The cult of the dead: novenas, at the end of the year and on November 1 and 2.


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