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Paseo por Mexico Sacred Art Gallery in San Pedro Cholula

Sacred Art Gallery in San Pedro Cholula

San Pedro Cholula, Puebla

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The Sacred Art Gallery is located in the Portería of the former ex-convent of San Gabriel. The beautiful space, which exhibits religious and artistic objects, still preserves some of the mural paintings that adorned the walls. Also on display are some copies from the Franciscan Library - one of the most important bibliographic collections in the country, with collections from different convents - located in the Portal de Peregrinos.

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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