Tezontle (Spanish: tezontle) is a porous, highly oxidized, volcanic rock used extensively in construction in Mexico. It is usually reddish in color due...

(1995). Leyendas y consejas del antiguo Yucatán (in Spanish). Mexico City: Tezontle. ISBN 968-16-4889-7. OCLC 38991657. Miller, Mary (1999). Maya Art and Architecture...

ceremony held in a local church. On a wall of the chapel in the village of Tezontle, Hidalgo, a plaque says it was donated by Heriberto Lazcano: "Donated by...

corner walls made of chiluca stone and tezontle. Chiluca, a white stone, covers the walls and floors and the tezontle frames the doors and windows. At the...

Stromatolites Syenite Tezontle — a volcanic rock used in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican architecture. Archaeological sites with tezontle structures are located...

Roma (the first in Mexico, opening in 1947), Plaza Lindavista, Parque Tezontle, Parque Las Antenas in Iztapalapa, Pabellón Polanco, and Galerías Coapa...

classified as a government building, the National Palace, with its red tezontle facade, fills the entire east side of the Zócalo, measuring over 200 metres...

traditional Tahona, a millstone made of volcanic rock, known locally as Tezontle, to crush the agave piñas, creating a pulp and drawing out the sweet juice...

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ruins and other historic buildings in Mexico City, built from andesite and Tezontle basaltic andesite. In 2009, researchers revealed that andesite was found...

but the other government buildings, built in the 1960s are faced with tezontle in the style of the 18th-century palaces in Mexico City. The Temple of...

active promoter of neocolonial architecture. Traditional materials such as tezontle, cantera and Talavera tiles were incorporated into neocolonial buildings...

the two is the State Government Palace, a three-story building with a tezontle façade built between 1955 and 1969. The Morelos Garden dates from 1908...

Cathedral of Querétaro by Pope Benedict XV. The church is constructed of tezontle and has altarpieces of cantera stone. The facade shows the transition between...

digging for the foundations, others in hauling many and very good stones of tezontle from a little hill which was about a quarter of a league away. ... On the...

corn and vegetables. The land also produces building materials such as tezontle and black sandstone. In the higher elevations, there are forests of pine...

1969 2021 Guadalajara Zapopan Jal. Plaza del Sol 8,255 Fábricas de Francia Plaza del Sol 2007 2022 Mexico City Iztapalapa CDMX Parque Tezontle 21,928...

three naves and an octagonal cupola. The recessed facade is covered in tezontle with fillets of cantera (a grey-white stone). Above the main portal there...

obliged to live outside it on the outskirts at the base of the Cerro del Tezontle. Today this area is known as Colonia Francisco I. Madero and is part of...

Neoclassical. It occupies the finishing of the exterior material of quarry and tezontle. Roman Catholic Diocese of Querétaro Roman Catholicism in Mexico St. Philip...

on the ruins of Moctezuma II's palace beginning in 1521, using the same tezontle stone used to build the Aztec palace. It was originally in the Hernán Cortés...

post and lintel roofs. A common building material in central Mexico was tezontle (a light, volcanic rock). It was common for palaces and monumental structures...

mezzanine, showing Italian influence in its Baroque design. Its façade of tezontle and cantera stone is flanked by two fortified towers at the ends of the...

at this time rejected Mexico's traditional Baroque architecture of red tezontle stone and wrought iron balconies and window rails for a more modern look...

lake area. This involves the planting of juniper trees and the sinking of tezontle pylons into the lakebed. These remaining chinampas are part of the Xochimilco...

private buildings on the street as well. The complex was built with masonry, tezontle and other stone. The church portion remains open to worship and visitors...

city and near Correo Mayor. The two buildings are nearly twins, both with tezontle stone facades and white stone accents. The houses were founded by the family...

Saint Peter, the patron saint. The rest of the facade is covered in red tezontle stone and there are two bell towers. The interior has a single nave. On...

century. It has a façade nearly without curves and almost square, covered in tezontle stone. On each side of the facade, there is a slim bell tower. The main...

The outer facade has two levels, with most of the surface covered in tezontle, a blood-red volcanic stone, with chiluca, a grayish white stone, to frame...