Ex Teresa Arte Actual (Extemplo de San José y Santa Teresa la Grande)

The most striking feature of this building is its visible, slight tilt toward the east, a consequence of being constructed centuries ago atop the unstable, soft soil of a former lake bed. This colonial structure began as the Convent and Temple of San José de las Carmelitas Descalzas in sixteen sixteen, eventually becoming known as Santa Teresa la Antigua. Its baroque façade and twin portals, crafted by architect Cristóbal de Medina in the late seventeenth century, once welcomed cloistered nuns who inhabited these austere, stone-walled rooms.