Rosary Chapel (Capilla del Rosario), Puebla

A sumptuous chapel located inside the Church of Santo Domingo. You may pay 20 pesos for entry and its money well spent. There is always a line to see the pace because they are only allowing so many people at a time. Tee church is nice but the chapel is over the top, colonial baroque, with gold everywhere. Most impressive.

The chapel of the rosary has baroque architecture, is housed in the temple of Santo Domingo and is one of the most beautiful works of baroque novohispano in Puebla. It was worth this work that took 40 years to build, the Virgin of the Rosary in the church is also known as the patron saint of the seas because she is the Virgin of sailors and travelers and above the Virgin is the Santo Domingo and much higher is the Angel Gabriel, the chapel you can see what there are mermaids, scales, shells, dolphins, waves and fish. The gold used to decorate this church came from Guanajuato, it says that the gold came in powder form at 24 carats and the glue in those years was honey, egg whites, aloe, milk, cactus slime, the gold of the altar of the virgin has 23.5 carats of gold, while the gold of the rest of the chapel has 21 carats of gold. The chapel was considered the 8th wonder of the world and was declared Cultural Patrimony of Humanity by UNESCO. I highly recommended you to go, it’s so beautiful.