After we dropped our bags at the hotel we went to see the oldest Spanish-built structures in the Yucatan, the Church of San Bernardino de Siena and the Convent of the Sisal built in 1552. After paying a small admission fee, we got to see the rose colored unimaginably thick walls (8 feet?), courtyards, doors to the nun's cells, oops, rooms.
This dome-shaped building covers a cenote first used by the Mayans and then by the Spanish for fresh water. In the 1990's, a dive team dove down and recovered some rifles used by the Spanish to defend themselves in the Caste War around 1850 together with some 10,000 year old bones of a mammal without incisors.
This is the cobblestone street known as the Calzada de los Frailes (Road of the Friars). It was built to connect the city of Valladolid to the Mayan town of Sisal where the church was built. Gradually the towns grew together.Now it provides a beautiful walk to the church.
This is the interior of the San Servacio Cathedral that is on the main square in Valladolid. It was built in 1545. The Spanish, in true conqueror style, used some of the stones from a Mayan temple (built on the same site) to construct it. The church was torn down and re-oriented in 1706 so that it would face the square.
A view of the cathedral from across the square.
This dome-shaped building covers a cenote first used by the Mayans and then by the Spanish for fresh water. In the 1990's, a dive team dove down and recovered some rifles used by the Spanish to defend themselves in the Caste War around 1850 together with some 10,000 year old bones of a mammal without incisors.
This is the cobblestone street known as the Calzada de los Frailes (Road of the Friars). It was built to connect the city of Valladolid to the Mayan town of Sisal where the church was built. Gradually the towns grew together.Now it provides a beautiful walk to the church.
This is the interior of the San Servacio Cathedral that is on the main square in Valladolid. It was built in 1545. The Spanish, in true conqueror style, used some of the stones from a Mayan temple (built on the same site) to construct it. The church was torn down and re-oriented in 1706 so that it would face the square.
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What a gorgeous, interesting trip! Love the pictures. Keep them coming!
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