Description: The Convent of Santo Domingo in the city of Oaxaca, one of Mexico’s most important historical monuments due to its architecture and history, was built by the Dominicans between 1550 and 1600. It was the largest convent in New Spain.

In the different parts that make up the convent – cloisters, patios and staircases – the architecture typical of each epoch can be appreciated.

Within this complex, the church was built, with its Renaissance style stone facade.

The decoration inside the church is one of the most striking examples of Mexican Baroque. There are magnificent altarpieces, paintings, polychrome sculptures of carved wood, surrounded by superb plasterwork, also polychrome and gilded.

A large part of the convent houses the Museum of Oaxacan Cultures, where finds belonging to pre-Hispanic epoch are displayed, having enormous artistic and archaeological value, for example the gold objects from Tomb 7 at Monte Albán. A visit continues through other rooms that range in subject from the Conquest to other important periods in the history of the state of Oaxaca.

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