Templo de Santo Domingo de Guzmán

Catholic cathedral · Oaxaca City

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"Set in downtown Oaxaca, this complex features a photogenic 17th-century Baroque Roman Catholic church, a cultural museum, and a botanical garden; originally a Dominican church and monastery, it was later used as a barracks and military building during Mexico’s revolution and well into the 1990s, and I expect to spend a couple of hours exploring the entire site." - Matthew Kepnes

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C. Macedonio Alcalá s/n, RUTA INDEPENDENCIA, Centro, 68000 Oaxaca de Juárez, Oax., Mexico Get directions

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