churrigueresque

It consists of carved rock in a style called "churrigueresque" and, besides being very beautiful, is interesting because it mixes traditional Catholic symbols with classic Inca symbols.

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It's facade is intricately carved in the style known as churrigueresque, common here because of the Spanish influence that dates back for centuries.

La Valencia - one of Guanajuato's richest silver mines 2008

It's facade is intricately carved in the style known as churrigueresque, common here because of the Spanish influence that dates back for centuries.

La Valencia - one of Guanajuato's richest silver mines 2008

Art: You can find several neoclasic altarpieces, oil paintings and a chapel dedicated to the Rosario´s Virgin with a singular churrigueresque wooden altarpiece.

A Patzcuaro Picture 2002

Automobiles and buses travel end on end all day, and in the cemetery itself there are lemonade stands and tintype photographers making a splendid day on arm-in-arm lovers and family groups backed by a pretentious marble slab or a churrigueresque flower arbor.

The Mexican Day of the Dead and the Skeleton at the Feast by Elizabeth Carmichael and Chloe Sayer 2000

Automobiles and buses travel end on end all day, and in the cemetery itself there are lemonade stands and tintype photographers making a splendid day on arm-in-arm lovers and family groups backed by a pretentious marble slab or a churrigueresque flower arbor.

The Mexican Day of the Dead and the Skeleton at the Feast by Elizabeth Carmichael and Chloe Sayer 2000

My father, who did not much like churrigueresque flamboyance, replied, - Mey might use it as a model for a wedding cake, but hardly for a church. '

Mexico Michener, James 1992

Experts from New York and London had termed our cathedral 'the acknowledged masterpiece of churrigueresque design.'

Mexico Michener, James 1992

And in 1760 it was an Archbishop Palafox who tore down the old faqade of the cathedral, replacing it with the rns ble churrigueresque masterpiece of which I have already spoken.

Mexico Michener, James 1992

My father, who did not much like churrigueresque flamboyance, replied, 'They might use it as a model for a wedding cake, but hardly for a church.' in this matter I sided with my mother, and although later I was to see such awe-inspiring cathedrals as Chartres and Salisbury, I always thought that our cathedral in Toledo was the most angelic I had ever seen.

Mexico Michener, James 1992