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On the Road to Guadalajara: St. Tomas to Magdalena


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Printed on a flat card, the colors almost turn 3d. This is actually a phone card for cell minutes printed by Telcel to celebrate Paschua (Easter). It had probably been on the ground for several weeks before I took the picture. It is no larger than a playing card.
Here is the facade of the old Franciscan monestary, I accidently cropped the left side, but the twisted cords-ropes you see on the left and right represent the Franciscan order.
There were men like this sitting all over the plaza, enjoying the afternoon.
   
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Description: Here the old, unpaved cobbled road, brings you to another very old town with a fort, almost never visited by foreigners. The path brings you past abandoned mango groves and mountains leading down into an agricultural basin where they grow mostly agave (used to make Tequila). Magdalena is a beautiful city, with the cathedral, built by Franiscans as a monastery, completed in the mid 1700s. I stayed in a bed at the local Catholic Church, and had a very interesting conversation with the local priest, which I will tell you more about soon.

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