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Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocate
<img src=’http://whc.unesco.org/uploads/sites/site_702.jpg‘ target=’blank‘ align=’left‘ style=’padding:5px‘>These 14 monasteries stand on the slopes of Popocatepetl, to the south-east of Mexico City. They are in an excellent state of conservation and are good examples of the architectural style adopted by the first missionaries – Franciscans, Dominicans and Augustinians – who converted the indigenous populations to Christianity in the early 16th century. They also represent an example of a new architectural concept in which open spaces are of renewed importance. The influence of this style is felt throughout the Mexican territory and even beyond its borders.
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