la villa de guadalupe

Click Here to Order a Ready to Frame Luster PrintIn order to celebrate another milestone somewhere in my mid 40’s the best girl in the world, POLA, took me to one of the most incredible places on earth. We ended up in places like the in a bell tower on a church, the top of a skyscraper in the middle of Mexico City DF and looking up at a church built on top of the worlds largest base of a pyramid.La Villa de Guadalupe is in the northern part of Mexico City and it is the home to the Basílica de Guadalupe complex (known often simply as "La Villa"), which includes the Hill of Tepeyac. The complex is perhaps Roman Catholicism's holiest site in Latin America.Founded in 1563 as La Villa de Guadalupe, the area houses the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. It is at the foot of the Tepeyac Hill, where many believe that the Virgin appeared to St. Juan Diego (canonized by John Paul II in 2002, making him the world's first indigenous American saint). The Old Basilica, which dates from