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TARJETA POSTAL. Fotografía estereoscópica. En el lado izquierdo se aprecia: "Keystone View Company Manufacturers and Publishers Copyright 1900 by B. Singley (con cursiva)". Del lado derecho se observa: "Meadville, Pa. St Louis, Mo. San Francisco, Cal. Toronto Can, New York,N.Y, London, England". En la parte inferior de la tarjeta se lee: "(10865)-The Sacred Shrine on Cholula and "Old Popocatapetl (sic) Cholulu (sic), México." Al reverso: "10,365 Der Geitige Altar von Cholula und der "alte" Popocatapetl ut Megico.(sic). La Sacra efige di Cholula e il "vecchio Popocatapetl (sic) Cholula, Messico. Cháse sacrée de Cholula, et le "Vieux Popocatapetl (sic), Cholula, Mexique. El Relicario sagrado de Cholula y Popocatapetl (sic), Cholula, Mexico. Der hellige Skriin i Cholula og "Gamle Popocatepetl" Cholula, Mexico. Cholulas heliga skrin och gamla Popocatapetl, Cholula, Mexiko. (7) Cholula was the sacred city of Mexico, the Mecca of the Aztecs. Here was the shrine of the best of their gods, the kindly Quetzalcoatl; yet ...(ilegible)kindliness did not prevente him from receiving human sacrifice according to the enormities of the pious Aztec cannibalism. The city had a large population, and sacrifices, processions and festivals made it illustrions, while its social and offician life were compared with the court of Moctezuma at the capital. Cortez (sic) reported to the King of Spain that he had seen 400 temples in Cholula, but no one believes that he saw more than 40; he destroyed them all and required that a Christian church be built on the site of each. He went further, and destruyed 3,000 Cholulans who had assembled in good faith and unarmed to meet him. The present interest of the place is the great Pyramid of Cholula with a base as large as Boston Common, or twice that of Keops; its height is 175 feet; its was built but a vanished race. There ir more of Spanish America to be seen. We speed to Salvador and Costa Rica." La cruz atrial que se observa en la imagen corresponde a la Iglesia de los Remedios, construída sobre la Gran Pirámide de Cholula y dedicada desde 1594 a la virgen del mismo nombre. Simboliza la evangelización de los indígenas por los españoles. Desde su atrio se tiene una espectacular vista de los cuatro puntos cardinales, en especial del Valle de Puebla que está hacia el oriente. Cuenta en su interior con un vistoso altar de estilo neoclásico. Véase:Iglesia de los Remedios y Volcán Popocatepetl, Cholula Puebla, ww.pa-puebla.com, (última consulta 20 de julio de 2009).