Gorgeous
Santo Domingo is the most splendid of Oaxaca’s churches, with a finely carved
baroque facade and nearly every square centimeter inside decorated in 3D relief
with intricate gilt designs swirling around a profusion of painted figures.
Most elaborate of all is the 18th-century Capilla de la Virgen del Rosario
(Rosary Chapel) on the south side.
The whole church takes on a magically warm
glow during candlelit evening Masses.
Santo
Domingo was built mainly between 1570 and 1608 as part of the city’s Dominican
monastery, with the finest artisans from Puebla and elsewhere helping in its
construction.
Like other big buildings in this earthquake-prone region, it has
immensely thick stone walls.
--Lonely Planet
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