Spears, an architect and landscape architect, provides b&w photos of 16th-century rural churches and monasteries, or conventos, of central and southern Mexico as they exist today, including some early rural visitas, smaller churches or
open chapels. They are organized by geographic area: Hidalgo, the state of Mexico and Mexico City, Morelos, Puebla and Tlaxcala, MichoacAaAaAeA n, Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Yucatan.