pedriceña chapel

Distant about 100 kilometers to the southwest of Torreón, Coah./Gómez Palacio, Dgo. MX, Pedriceña was from colonial times a mining establishment.

The deposits of this region of the state of Durango were operated by the foreign company American Smelting and Refining company (ASARCO). Built on a small hill by the wife of one of the high civil employees of the company, this eccentric construction was going to be the mortuary chapel of this marriage. By diverse reasons it was not finished, and therefore, never it was used.

Now, it is used to venerate to the Virgin of Guadalupe by local people and is victim of the vandals who do not know to their beauty and its historical value.

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items are from between 03 Feb 2007 & 07 Feb 2007.