Santuario de la Virgen de los Remedios

The Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de los Remedios is a 16th-century Mexican Catholic parish church built atop the Tlachihualtepetl pyramid in the municipality of Cholula located in the central Mexican state of Puebla. The church was built with carved stone and embellished with 24-carat gilded panels and shims, called laminilla. It has an altar in the neoclassical style. [1] It was built between May 1574 and August 1575 and consecrated on March 25, 1629. The base on which the church is built one of the largest pyramids of the ancient world, being 54 metres high, covering 54 acres and shaped by several superimposed structures over the course of six centuries

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