Tlaxcala - Iglesia de la Asunción

The Iglesia de la Asunción, today Tlaxcala's cathedral, is worth seeing for its magnificent Moorish-style cedarwood ceiling decorated with stars and also for the font in the Chapel of the Third Order where the four rulers of Tlaxcala are supposed to have been baptised.

On a lower level, reached by two flights of steps, is the Gothic "Open Chapel" (Capilla Abierta or Capilla de Indios), which was one of the first of its kind in Mexico. In the atrium can be seen the remains of two of the original four Capillas Posas (processional chapels).