Wednesday, January 17, 2018

TEMPLO SANTO DOMINGO

OAXACA, MEXICO



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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