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Paseo por Mexico Inside of the Parish of Our Lady of the Assumption in Tecamachalco

Inside of the Parish of Our Lady of the Assumption in Tecamachalco

Tecamachalco, Puebla

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The church atrium was used as a bullring, considered the first bullring in Viceroyal Mexico, with two bullfights being held there; one in 1568 and another in 1585, with Fray Juan Bastigas and Fray Francisco Gaity as guardians of the convent.

Municipality

Tecamachalco is one of the 217 municipalities into which the Mexican state of Puebla is divided, capital of the homonymous municipality, its name means "in the jaw of the hill", its main historical monument is the Statue of Benito Juárez and Vicente Guerrero, located in the park Juárez, the museum of pre-Hispanic pieces, on August 15 they celebrate the festival dedicated to the Virgin of the Assumption of Mary, masses are celebrated and cockfights, horse races, bicycle races and dancing are organized, as a tourist attraction they have the ex-Franciscan convent, dating from 1530, the Church of Calvario, and parish of the Asunción, the Moral and Tlacomulco haciendas foundry.

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