Tourist Attractions in Cuernavaca, Morelos Photos, Informations, Sightseeing, Places to Visit...

Dedicated to Nuestra Señora de la Asuncion it was built originally as a convent of the town and was founded by the first twelve Franciscan friars who arrived in the country in 1525. The complex consists of Atrium, Open Chapel, Capilla (Chapel)de la Santa Cruz, Capilla de los Dolores, Capilla del Carmen, Capilla de la Tercera Orden and  Temple of Nuestra Señora del Carmen. In the mid-eighteenth century the church holds the rank of parish. It was in the late nineteenth century that the Pope Leon XIII issued a decree by the erection of the bishopric of Cuernavaca with ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the State of Morelos and thus The Church of la Asuncion became Cathedral. After the restoration of 1957 by the Department of Colonial Monuments,  they removed the lime layer covering the walls and thus were discovered remnants of mural paintings of the eighteenth century depicting the arrival in Japan and the martyrdom of the holy Mexican Felipe de Jesus and his companions. Other fresh of incomparable beauty show the Pope Inocencio II blessing the missionaries with floral and geometric motifs in black and white.

Construction consecrated to the Virgin of Guadalupe. It is called Chapitel to the type of open chapels with pyramidal covers that were usually erected in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It is a small chapel composed of a single vault on isolated columns. It is  known as "El Calvario" by its cross which was in the interior pedestal. According to the legend the place served as a place to humiliate. Due to the type of architecture that is identified, this Chapitel of  Cuernavaca is the only one that is preserved throughout the country.

It is known as the Parish of Natividad which was created in the sixteenth century and form a compound with the former Convent of Natividad. The parish has a large atrium in which there are 4 posas chapels (chapels that served to pose there the Holy in the processions of the  celebration of Corpus Christi)which were made of stone and placed in the corners of the atrium and an atrial cross whose tips end up in the form of fleur-de-lis, distinctive emblem of the Order of Friars Dominicans. The most important religious festival of this church is carried out on September 8, jointly with the celebrations of the Reto al Tepozteco (Tepozteco Challenge).