Ozumba

Ozumba is a metropolis and municipality positioned inside the southeast part of the Valley of Mexico, 70 km southeast of Mexico City close to the Mexico City-Cuautla highway. The foremost function of this vicinity is the Parish of the Immaculate Conception which commenced as a Franciscan monastery in the 16th century. The front to the cloister area consists of paintings of art related to the early evangelization efforts of this order.

They embody scenes collectively with Hernan Cortes greeting the primary Franciscan missionaries in Mexico, the martyrdom of a number of the primary younger converts to Christianity or even a scene in which the priests are flogging Cortes. The church itself internal has suffered the theft of a number of its antique quantities. The call Ozumba comes from Nahuatl that means “over the streams of water”. “de Alzate” changed into added to the formal call in honor of the scientist Jose Antonio Alzate y Ramirez Santillana who became born here.