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Basílica de la Soledad
The image of Oaxaca's patron saint, the Virgen de la Soledad (Virgin of Solitude), resides in the 17th-century Basílica de la Soledad, 3½ blocks west of the Alameda. The church, with a richly carved baroque facade, stands where the image is said to have miraculously appeared in a donkey's pack in 1543. The virgin was later adorned with enormous worldly riches - but lost her 2kg gold crown, a huge pearl and several hundred diamonds to thieves in the 1990s.
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Cathedral
Oaxaca's Cathedral , begun in 1553 and finished (after several earthquakes) in the 18th century, stands just north of the Zócalo. Its main facade, facing the Alameda, features fine baroque carving.
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Iglesia de La Compañía
Fine, carved facades adorn the colonial Iglesia de La Compañía.
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Iglesia de San Juan de Dios
Fine, carved facades adorn the colonial Iglesia de San Juan de Dios, a beautiful small 17th-century church on the site of Oaxaca's first church (which was built in 1526).
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Iglesia de Santo Domingo
Four blocks north of the cathedral, gorgeous Iglesia de Santo Domingo is the most splendid of Oaxaca's churches. It was built mainly between 1570 and 1608 as part of the city's Dominican monastery, with the finest artisans from Puebla and elsewhere helping in its construction. Like other big buildings in this earthquake-prone region, Santo Domingo has immensely thick stone walls.
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Templo de San Felipe Neri
The 18th-century baroque Templo de San Felipe Neri is where Benito Juárez and Margarita Maza were married in 1843; Margarita was the daughter of Antonio Maza, an Italian immigrant merchant who took in the young Benito when he arrived in Oaxaca as a boy.
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