Shrine of Our Lady of Remedies

The Iglesia de Nuestra Senora de los Remedios is a 16th-century Mexican Catholic parish church constructed atop the Tlachihualtepetl pyramid within the municipality of Cholula located within the valuable Mexican state of Puebla. The church turned into constructed with brada stone and embellished with 24-carat gilded panels and shims, known as laminilla. It has an altar within the neoclassical fashion. It was constructed between May 1574 and August 1575 and consecrated on March 25, 1629. The base on which the church is constructed considered one of the largest pyramids of the ancient world, being 54 metres excessive, protecting 54 acres and shaped by means of numerous superimposed structures over the path of six centuries.

The defeat suffered by means of Hernan Cortrs in the war of the Noche Triste led to a moved quickly escape of the survivors as much as Naucalpan. Along the manner they suffered the lack of many squaddies and native allies in addition to extraordinary hostages, such as some youngsters of Moctezuma. The Spanish sheltered and recovered in the Indian temples till they might turn to fight the Aztecs on the Battle of Otumba. Legend tells that considered one of Cortes's squaddies, Gonzalo Rodriguez de Villafuerte, had with him one of the little spiritual photographs known as castrenses, and he concealed it some of the aloes on the way to perform a devotional movement of thankfulness.