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In our previous article we have come from the beautiful Mexican city of Oaxaca. We propose then join us to continue to discover this “baroque jewel of southern Mexico. Another tourist attraction is the main street Macedonio Alcala. This picturesque pedestrian paved with green stone is considered the “walker tour of Oaxaca. Macedonio Alcalá joins the main square of Oaxaca with the glory: the church of Santo Domingo de Guzman. The temple is part of a religious complex built by Dominicans in the sixteenth and seventeenth

Within this architectural complex stands the Regional Museum. It is a room where it is shown the treasure of the tomb number seven of Monte Alban, which contains a great wealth of the Mixtec culture. It also highlights the Rosary Chapel, attached to the temple. It dates from the early eighteenth century and contains a fine plaster work in addition to displaying the allegories of the fifteen mysteries of the rosary.

Returning to the church of Santo Domingo we can highlight its facade exhibits a baroque ornamentation careful way altarpiece bill. This highlights the reliefs of Saint Dominic and St. Hippolytus. Two strong towers flanking this superb home built on a sleek body and supported by heavy buttresses. Its interior reveals multiple workshops anonymously plasterers and plasterers who have left their work full of feeling.

We can highlight the temple inside the beautiful pictorial work depicting passages from the Old and New Testaments. For this and much, much more so the Temple as the city of Oaxaca were declared Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 1979.

Today we’ll tell the story of the longest dry square of the ever-beautiful city of Paris, capital of France. It covers an area of 84 thousand square meters. We are talking about the famous Place de la Concorde. The Concordia is known worldwide for having sheltered here conscientious several celebrities. Undoubtedly the most important was what happened during the course of the French Revolution. The square was occupied by the guillotine, at whose feet rolled the heads of prominent figures in the history of France among them: King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette.

Returning to the present time, we mention that the Place de la Concorde, in octagonal shape, is crossed by various Parisian avenues that separated into several sections. Share important buildings around the perimeter of the square. Among them are: the Hotel Crillon and the Admiralty. Both were designed by the same architect who designed the diagram and place: the renowned Gabriel. It is also important to note that the actual name of the Place de la Concorde comes from the era of the Directory. He named it for the purpose of calling into oblivion both political controversy.

Finally, we note that today the center of the Plaza is occupied by one of the most striking of the city of Paris. It is the Egyptian obelisk from the Temple of Luxor. This monument 34 centuries old has a modern hieroglyphic writing. On the pedestal that holds gold played in the process of installation. Two sources in its complement the architectural side.