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About San Cristobal de las Casas Ciudad de San Cristobal de las Casas

    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 t . . .

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