Oaxaca Sights

Basílica de la Soledad

#20 of 105 things to do in Oaxaca

#529 of 3953 things to do in Mexico

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Lonely Planet review for 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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