Tezontle (Spanish: tezontle) is a porous, highly oxidized, volcanic rock used extensively in construction in Mexico. It is usually reddish in color due...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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Stromatolites Syenite Tezontle — a volcanic rock used in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican architecture. Archaeological sites with tezontle structures are located...
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Roma (the first in Mexico, opening in 1947), Plaza Lindavista, Parque Tezontle, Parque Las Antenas in Iztapalapa, Pabellón Polanco, and Galerías Coapa...
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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...
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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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Retrieved on June 27, 2014. "Av. Río Churubusco núm. 654 entre Apatlaco y Tezontle Col. Zapata Vela Del. Iztacalco c.p. 08040" Wikimedia Commons has media...
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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...
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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...
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active promoter of neocolonial architecture. Traditional materials such as tezontle, cantera and Talavera tiles were incorporated into neocolonial buildings...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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corn and vegetables. The land also produces building materials such as tezontle and black sandstone. In the higher elevations, there are forests of pine...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Neoclassical. It occupies the finishing of the exterior material of quarry and tezontle. Roman Catholic Diocese of Querétaro Roman Catholicism in Mexico St. Philip...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Group). 2008: Begins to operate, with the opening of the branch channel Tezontle Avenue in Mexico City, The Home Store format, dedicated to selling decorative...
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