In this important pre-Columbian town, the Codex Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca was written approximately between 1550 and 1570. The town had a legendary prestige associated with warfare. The monastery of San Juan Bautista in its present structure was built between 1569 and 1593 under the supervision of the famous millenarist Franciscan Fray Geronimo Mendieta. Over the door in the cloister, there is a curious mural painting of the Annunciation to Mary by the archangel Gabriel. The Christian image taken from a medieval engraving is flanked by an eagle and a jaguar painted in typical prehispanic Codex style.
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