Cathédrale métropolitaine de Mexico v1.0
The Metropolitan Cathedral of the Assumption of the Most Holy Virgin Mary into Heaven in Mexico City is located in the Plaza de la Constitución. It was built in the style of Spanish Baroque architecture and includes a pair of 64m neoclassical towers that carry eighteen bells.
Three years after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlán, Hernán Cortés undertook the construction of a church there. It was converted into a cathedral by Charles V and Pope Clement VII following the bull of September 9, 1530 and obtained the title of “metropolitan” in 1547, by decision of Paul III.
This cathedral quickly became too narrow and was demolished in 1571. The construction of the new cathedral was decided by Viceroy Martín Enríquez de Almanza and Archbishop Pedro Moya de Contreras who laid the first stone in the same year. It will be consecrated in 1667. A side chapel, the Sagrario, in Mexican churrigueresque style, was built between 1749 and 1769. The final elements, two bell towers and a central dome, works of the Spanish neoclassical architect Manuel Tolsá, complete the whole. 1813.
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