Iglesia Del Convento De San Francisco

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    Madero 7, Centro Histórico
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The temple is just a remnant of the vast Franciscan monastery erected in the early 16th century over the site of Moctezuma's private zoo. In its heyday it extended two blocks south and east, and its atrium could hold 60,000 worshippers. The monastic complex was divvied up under the post-Independence Reform Laws, then returned to the Franciscan order, in a deplorable state, in 1949, and subsequently restored.

The entrance is reached through a broad atrium, where art exhibitions are held; the elaborately carved doorway is a shining example of 18th-century baroque.