Meeting of cultures in the heart of the Chiapas Highlands The largest area covered by tiles in the country on a Renaissance-inspired urban line, has the largest number of Baroque altarpieces in Mexico, the Valley of Jovel offered the ideal location, mild weather and strategic location for Diego de Mazariegos founded in 1528 the Royal City of Chiapas.

In the current historical center of San Cristobal de Las Casas converge rooftops, flowering courtyards, balconies intended, baroque facades, neoclassical buildings and Mudejar, colorful crafts, exquisite cuisine, ceremonies, processions, festivals, ancient legends.

Around the square is the Cathedral Baroque facade, the neoclassical City Hall, Los Portales, the church of St. Nicholas, with the style that best identifies the colonial religious architecture in Chiapas and the House of the Mermaid of the sixteenth century inspiration platerezca...

	Located across from the square that bears his name, including Cathedral Square, next to Central Park. Previously it was the church of the Assumption Cathedral and became the province to be elevated to the rank of Chiapas diocese. Its first bishop was Fray Bartolome de Las Casas. The current building began to rise in the seventeenth century and was completed in the twentieth century.
During this period baroque elements were added, Moorish and neoclassical. The facade of the eighteenth century is part of the baroque and consists of three bodies by way of a gigantic altarpiece, its plant refers to the Moorish style. Paintings by Juan Correa, Miguel Cabrera and Eusebio Aguilar, between gold treasures of sacred art.

First convent founded in San Cristobal de Las Casas, whom the mercenaries arrived in 1537.

During the Porfiriato the church was rebuilt in neoclassical style, adding that characterizes the tower, and the convent was enabled as a prison.

Inside the sacristy is kept the original construction of a Roman arch decorated with floral motifs and plaster reliefs representing the sun and moon.

Among his most outstanding paintings shows a double eagle

The convent of mercenaries stopped working in 1993 as a municipal jail

Today it houses the Amber Museum

Also known as Plaza Mayor, is a site of great interest because during the colonial period served as a rallying point for civic activities, marketing and center for water supply, because there was the pile.

It is currently surrounded by civil and religious buildings, plus portals that house stores.

Interesting museum founded by Frans Blom and his wife Gertrude Duby Blom in a beautiful nineteenth century mansion, which displays a small portion of the history of the Lacandon Jungle.

Utensils, handicrafts, archaeological and garments on display are the product of more than 50 years of collection and classification of these characters, who were devoted to the study of ethnicity of the Lacandon.

Offers guided tours daily at 11:30 and 16:30 hours and has lodging and food service.

Set built between 1547 and 1551, its monumental facade mortar (mixture of lime, sand and water) was built in the sixteenth century by the order of Dominican friars, masterfully combining various elements of the colonial baroque

• The interior is decorated with altarpieces of excellent workmanship and the pulpit is the most beautiful part of the church, because it is carved in wood with gold plating.

• In the chapel of the rosary has a Baroque altarpiece of the Holy Trinity.

• Inside the former convent houses the Museum of Los Altos de Chiapas, beautiful XVI century building whose courtyard surrounded by corridors and cloisters houses the Museum of City History.

• The museum houses a large collection of archaeological and colonial art objects until the nineteenth century, an extensive textile collection and sample preparation techniques of the ethnic groups of Los Altos de Chiapas.

• Is open Tuesday through Sunday from 9 to 16 hours.

• Especially interesting is the combination of the Dominican convent and church of La Caridad.

• The church of Santo Domingo is a Baroque masterpiece of Central America and Mexico, both in front of mortar as a whole golden altarpiece and pulpit inside. The Charity known for its magnificent Baroque altarpiece.

• Baroque altarpieces are also San Francisco, while El Carmen boasts a unique Moorish tower in Mexico. Many other interesting buildings in the city that is characterized by a substantial inventory of houses built in neoclassical style.

• In its quiet cobbled streets, flanked by wings of large houses with red tiled courtyards filled with flowers, its architectural treasures are discovered in various buildings of the sixteenth century, with influences of Moorish and Mexican colonial art, giving it a peculiar colonial character..

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