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San Cristobal De Las Casas Weather Current conditions as of 19/07/2008 62° FLow: 50° / High: 75°

Temperatura :

Low : 50°C
High : 75°C

Viento :

Velocity : 140 kph
Direction : NE

Humedad :

Humidity:
89 %

Sol :

Sunrise : 6:46 am
Sunset : 7:45 pm

Data proportioned by : Yahoo! Weather and The Weather Channel

Southeast of the Mexican Republic, in one of the states whose biodiversity overwhelms because of the extraordinary richness of flora and fauna, is located one of the cities founded since 1528 by Diego de Mazariegos, once the kingdom of Chiapas was established in charge of the Spanish. We are talking about that which played the role in colonial times as the most important city of the region: being the second Villa Real de Chiapa, known as Chiapa de los Españoles or Ciudad Real. And it would be at this precise place, surviving throughout time and enriching its urban traces with the aesthetic evolution of consecutive epochs, where there would arise a city whose constructions of particular shape and style would give life to one of the most beautiful tourist destinations: San Cristobal de las Casas.

Its name honors Bishop Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, defender of the natives of the place during the XVI Century and inspirator of the new faith in the so called “Nuevo Mundo” (New World). Out of that solid religious manifestation would be derived various of the temples which still remain to this day, and which denote, at the same time, the force that came to play in the collision between two distant cultures, as well as the melting of spirits at the crucible of a new patriotism born after great efforts. San Cristobal de las Casas is one of the colonial cities that keeps its public squares, cobble stone streets, red slate roofs, as well as the traditional market places where natives of the region offer to the public from crops to ceramics, or else their colorful traditional textiles.

As in any other city of this country, the churches and temples are an ideological projection of a society; invaluable testimonies that serve as real foundations of a national development set about in past Centuries. The Cathedral of San Cristobal, as many others, is part of that historical legacy covered up in the beginning of a religious faith that has lasted up til today: originally built in 1535, it had by the XVIII Century the facade known today, showing a purely barroque style. The Chrurch of La Merced even though being erected in 1537, seems more contemporary because it was remodeled during the era of the pofiriato following a neoclassical style. Nevertheless the sacristy keeps one of the original construction’s vestiges: a roman arch held by a pillar, hand decorated with floral motifs and embossings that represent the sun and the moon. Standing out in an equal manner is the Templo de Santo Domingo, whose main characteristics are its gigantic plaster facade and a pulpit of exceptional beauty, to which one arrives through a golden balustrade which is lifted over a carved pedestal, similar to a golden chalice.

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