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Paseo por Mexico Plaza de la Concordia in San Pedro Cholula

Plaza de la Concordia in San Pedro Cholula

San Pedro Cholula, Puebla

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The monumental Plaza de la Concordia is the nerve centre of San Pedro Cholula. Flanked by the former convent of San Gabriel and the Guerrero portal - the longest in Mexico with 46 semicircular arches totalling 170 metres in length - the plaza was built in 1573 for the market days and was remodelled in 1646, remaining as it is today. In the plaza there is a fountain of San Miguel Arcángel, donated in 1554 by Philip II of Spain.

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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