Hospicio Cabañas
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Key facts
- Location
- Guadalajara , Jalisco , Mexico
- Year built
- 1796-1810
- Height
- Chapel dome: 32.5 metres (107 ft)
- Architect
- Manuel Tolsá
- Official name
- Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara
- Type
- Cultural
- Criteria
- i, ii, iii, iv
- Designated
- 1997 (21st session )
- Region
- Latin America and the Caribbean
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Mexico
- Located in
- Guadalajara
- Official website
- museocabanas.jalisco.gob.mx/es
- Image
- Hospicio Cabañas.JPG
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- Commons category
- Hospicio Cabañas in Guadalajara, Mexico
- architect
- Manuel Tolsá
- heritage designation
- World Heritage Site
- floors above ground
- 1
- native label
- Hospicio Cabañas
- inception
- 1810-00-00
- street address
- 44360
- date of official opening
- 1983-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
The Hospicio Cabañas ( Spanish pronunciation: [osˈpisjo kaˈβaɲas]) or Cabañas Museum in Guadalajara, Jalisco was one of the oldest and largest orphanage and hospital complexes in the Americas. Now turned into a museum, the main hall hosts the magnum opus frescoes of muralist painter José Clemente Orozco. The place was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hospicio Cabañas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.