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| The Earliest 16th-century monasteries on the slopes of Popocatxc3xa9petl (Spanish: Monasterios en las faldas del Popocatxc3xa9petl) are fourteen 16th-century monasteries which were built by the Augustinians, the Franciscans and the Dominicans in order to evangelize the areas south and east of the Popocatxc3xa9petl volcano in central Mexico. | WIKI |
| These monasteries were recognized by the UNESCO as World Heritage Sites in 1994, because they served as the model for the early monastery and church buildings as well as evangelization efforts in New Spain and some points beyond in Latin America. | WIKI |
| These monasteries almost uniformly feature a very large atrium in front of a single nave church with a capilla abierta or open chapel. | WIKI |
| The fourteen monasteries are open to visitors, with eleven located in northern Morelos State and three in Puebla state. | WIKI |
| The eleven in Morelos are also promoted as the xe2x80x9cRoute of the Volcanoxe2x80x9d or the xe2x80x9cRoute of the Monasteriesxe2x80x9d for tourism purposes. | WIKI |
| Contents 1 Region 2 World Heritage Site 3 Monasteries 4 Common elements 5 History 6 The individual monasteries 7 Notes 8 References 9 External links | WIKI |
| The World Heritage Site consists of fourteen monasteries that are located south and east of the city of Mexico, the majority in the state of Morelos, except three that are in the state of Puebla. | WIKI |
| The monasteries in Morelos are located in the municipalities of Atlatlahucan, Cuernavaca, Tetela del Volcxc3xa1n, Yautepec, Ocuituco, Tepoztlxc3xa1n, Tlayacapan, Totolapan, Yecapixtla and Zacualpan de Amilpas. | WIKI |
| Most of these monasteries are located on the outskirts of Popocatxc3xa9petl volcano. | WIKI |
| Although Popocatepetl is an active volcano, none of the monasteries have been affected by this activity, although some have been damaged by seismic activity. | WIKI |
| The danger of the volcano is low in these monasteries and in the more than one hundred historical monuments of the region, because in this area there are low lava flows from the volcano and because the monuments were not built in areas where lava tends to run. | WIKI |
| The UNESCO World Heritage Site consists of fourteen monasteries that are located south and east of Mexico City, most in the state of Morelos, with three in the state of Puebla. | WIKI |
| The monasteries in Morelos are located in the municipalities of Atlatlahucan, Cuernavaca, Tetela del Volcxc3xa1n (including the one in Hueyapan), Yautepec, Ocuituco, Tepoztlxc3xa1n, Tlayacapan, Totolapan, Yecapixtla and Zacualpan de Amilpas. | WIKI |
| [1] Most, but not all, of these monasteries are located on the periphery of the Popocatepetl volcano. | WIKI |
| They were declared a World Heritage Site on 17 December 1994, due to being the model for monasteries and evangelism on the American Continent. | WIKI |
| This use of open space in the planning of churches and monasteries was adopted through most of Mexico and in some other parts of Latin America. | WIKI |
| [1] There is disagreement as to whether the monasteries represent a complete imposition of European design or whether they adopted certain aspects of indigenous ceremonial spaces. | WIKI |
| [5] The monasteries in Morelos are San Mateo Apostol in Atlatlahucan, Asuncixc3xb3n in Cuernavaca (current Cathedral), Santo Domingo de Guzmxc3xa1n in Hueyapan, Santiago Apostol in Ocuituco, Santo Domingo in Oaxtepec, La Natividad or la Anunciacixc3xb2n in Tepoztlxc3xa0n, Santo Domingo de Guzman in Tetela del Volcxc3xa0n, San Juan Bautista in Tlayacapan, San Guillermo Abad in Totolapan, San Juan Bautista in Yecapixtla and Immaculada Concepcixc3xb3n in Zacualpan de Amilpas. | WIKI |
| Over 70% of the monasteries built in the 16th century are still in good condition. | WIKI |
| [8] Restoration work in a number of the monasteries and restored, and in some cases, led to the rediscovery of murals. | WIKI |
| Despite Popocatepetl's being an active volcano, none of the monasteries have been damaged by it, although some have been damaged by earthquake activity. | WIKI |
| To further publicize the World Heritage monasteries in Morelos, the state promotes the eleven as the Route of the monasteries or the Route of the Volcano. | WIKI |
| Monasteries[edit] | WIKI |
| The fourteen 16th-century monasteries listed by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites located around the foothills of the Popocatxc3xa9petl Volcano are: | WIKI |
| The reason for being a World Heritage site is that the construction of these monasteries served as an architectural and urban planning model for the monasteries and towns that followed. | WIKI |
| [5] These monasteries were built to be very solid with thick walls and had a very austere aspect. | WIKI |
| Most of the monasteries have a large atrium in front of the church, an open chapel, four chapels in each corner of the atrium, and atrium cross, Stations of the cross on the atrium walls, a roofed church, and the cloister area for the monks. | WIKI |
| [5] Unlike churches built before and in the centuries after, the atrium played a critical role in these monasteries, built initially for the purpose of evangelization. | WIKI |
| The monasteries are part of the history of the early evangelization of Mexico. | WIKI |
| [3] The first of the monasteries were built by the Franciscans in 1524, who founded the monasteries of Huejotzingo, Cuernavaca, Calpan and Tochimilco. | WIKI |
| The Augustinians arrived in 1533 and founded the monasteries in Ocuituco, Totolapan, Yecapixtla, Tlayacapan, Atlatlauhcan and Zacualpan de Amilpas. | WIKI |
| Later, these same monasteries would send missionaries to other parts of New Spain, such as Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas and Guatemala. | WIKI |
| The monasteries served as the cornerstones for the towns founded and refounded by the Spanish during the very early colonial period, with the rest of the indigenous population settled or resettled around it. | WIKI |
| The monasteries also served as early hospitals, schools and storage facilities for food and water, with aqueducts often leading to them. | WIKI |
| The individual monasteries[edit] | WIKI |
| The only one of the fourteen monasteries to have suffered significant changes over its history, the cathedral has been modified several times. | WIKI |
| The chapel for pilgrims is closed, unlike the other monasteries, but the rest of the complex is open to visitors. | WIKI |
| The monastery of Santo Domingo de guzmxc3xa1n in Hueyapxc3xa1n has the highest altitude of the monasteries in the state of Morelos, with its climate cold compared to most of the rest of the state. | WIKI |
| [5] It is one of the monasteries closest to the volcano. | WIKI |
| The monasteries are Atlatlahucan, Cuernavaca, Tetela del Volcan, Yautepec, Ocuituco, Tepoztlan, Tlayacapan, Totolapan, Yecapixtla, Hueyapan and Zacualpan de Amilpas in Morelos and Calpan, Huetotzingo and Tochimilco in Puebla.These monasteries are considered to represent good examples of the architectural style adopted by the first missionaries xe2x80x93 Franciscans, Dominicans and Augustinians xe2x80x93, with spatial solutions and the architectural expressions that materialized the fusion and synthesis of heterogeneous elements. | UNESCO |
| The monasteries also represent an example of a new architectural concepts in which open spaces are of renewed importance. | UNESCO |
| The distinctive characteristic of these monasteries reside in the relationship between built and open spaces and, above all, in the emphasis placed on the wide forecourt or atrium with its individualxc2xa0posasxc2xa0and open chapels that offered a variety of solutions. | UNESCO |
| The monasteries were founded in areas of dense indigenous settlement, with the object of providing focal points for urban settlements, a role which has survived to the present day. | UNESCO |
| The 14 monasteries all conform with an architectural model which spread rapidly over the region and contains certain basic elements common to this new type of monastic house: atrium (usually rectangular), church (usually simple in plan but of imposing size, with a single nave), and monastic buildings, usually located to the south of the church and disposed around a small courtyard or patio, designated as the cloister. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (ii): xc2xa0The considerable influence exercised by the architectural model of the monasteries, which spread over a very wide area, is incontestable, because it operated not onlyxc2xa0 in the second half of the 16th century in the centre and south-east of Mexico, but continued with the expansion of colonization and evangelization of the lands to the north in the 18th century, reaching the present-day USA from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts, in the form of a large number of smaller establishments known as xe2x80x9cmissionsxe2x80x9d rather thanxe2x80x9d monasteries. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (iv): The group of monasteries selected as being representative of the large total, considered both as a family and as an individual buildings bears characteristic witness to a certain type of the structure, architectural as well as urban, which served as the centre of new human establishments for the reorganization of an enormous territory and for the introduction of new social and cultural elements. | UNESCO |
| Since the monasteries preserve all of the original elements of its architectural complex, they are a complete representation of an actual 16th century Monastery. | UNESCO |
| There are important challenges to address regarding the physical setting of these monasteries, particularly in terms of controlling urban sprawl at the diverse locations. | UNESCO |
| The level of authenticity in design and materials at the monasteries is high. | UNESCO |
| In case of the later, there could be total or partial losses of the monasteries. | UNESCO |
| Management and conservation centres aim at ensuring the stability of the monasteries and their elements through the implementation of conservation, maintenance and awareness raising activities. | UNESCO |