Templo y Convento del Carmen ("Church and Convent of Our Lady of Mount Carmel")
Anywhere you go in the city, you'll find a surprise.
16 de Septiembre and 17 Oriente.

This building complex mixes the sobriety of the convent church with decoration with stone, brick, talavera mosaics and plasterwork. Built between 1624 and 1627, the Convent of Our Lady of Mount Carmel was originally a hermitage dedicated to Our Lady of Los Remedios.

The space originally occupied by the Carmelite convent used to cover an area of several city blocks that today has given way to streets and other urban spaces. The splendor of this church can be appreciated from its chapels, its domes and in the small yet beautiful atrium, as well as the wonderful paintings that hang on its walls.

As Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz wrote: "We don't talk not because we don't have anything to say, but because we don't know how to say what we would like to say." That is the feeling that overwhelms anyone who sees this convent.

Don't miss seeing the Holy Trinity, a work by the colonial painter Cristóbal de Villalpando, which is considered one of the masterpieces of Mexican painting of that era!

Don't miss either on strolling in the park in front of the church and tasting one of the water-ices from the famous ice cream seller in front of the park!