Morelia

Morelia is the capital of the state of Michoacan, and is about 300 km - 3 driving hours - away from where we live in Toluca. Like every major Mexican city, it has a beautiful downtown cathedral. This particular one is widely considered one of the most beautiful Catholic churches in Mexico. It is built of local pink volcanic stone and combines the architectural styles of Neo-Classical, Herreresque and Baroque because it took almost a century to complete and kept changing styles to follow the modern changes in architecture.
Inside the cathedral, highlights include a silver baptismal font in a side chapel (Mexico's first emperor, Agustín de Iturbide, was baptized here), a beautiful organ with 4,600 pipes, and a 16th-century corn-paste statue of the Señor de la Sacristía. The statue's gold crown was a gift from Philip II of Spain.
Every Saturday at 8pm, they light up the cathedral and send up fireworks behind it. (well, they told us it was every Saturday night, but we went on Sat. night and there was no fireworks)

I really liked how the sun shined into the cathedral when we visited, which made it seem as if God himself was smiling on the chapel.


This is the 2nd largest pipe organ in Latin America:


This pic shows how pink the rock is: