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Basilica de Santa Maria Guadalupe (Mexico)
Newest Review: ... a 4 star hotel on the inside - there are numerous flags hanging over the alter - and it can hold up to 10,000 worshipers at once. on the day I went, it seemed mainly to be attracting this crowd, though there was one other solitary soul with a camera which made me feel better. The outside of this building is covered in pretty tiles, and a few interesting signs. The English one reads: ... more  ... "kindly do not enter unless you are decently dressed" while the Spanish one warns that entering with globos is prohibited. My Spanish dictionary tells me a globo is one of 4 things: a globe / balloon / round glass lampshade / sphere. Maybe they mean ...more |
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Basilica de Santa Maria Guadalupe (Mexico): Land of Giants (1277 words)
by - written on 02/09/08 (Very useful, 108 readings)
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The Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe in northern Mexico City is the most visited Catholic shrine in this part of the world. Every year on December 12th, tens of thousands of tourists flock here to celebrate the appearance of the Virgin here in 1531. Not really the pilgrimaging kind, I chose to go on a Friday in August, but even then it was far from quiet. The Basílica is so revered because in 1531, apparently, a brown-skinned Virgin appeared to a farmer called Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin. (You can find out more about the wondrous appearance here: http://www.sacred-destinations.com/mexico/mexico-city-basilica-guadalupe.htm ). This was before the days when ... Read the complete review
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