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Puebla History |
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During 1531, the recently-founded Puebla started its fast growth, receiving everyone’s admiration due to its architectonic stateliness that resulted from the combination of Baroque, Moorish, and Indian elements. There was only one convent: that of the Dominic nuns, however, the development and condition of the times demanded the existence of other religious orders.
Leonardo Ruiz de la Peña, priest of Xonotla in the Norther Sierra of Puebla, had the idea of founding a religious order apart fro the one that already existed “...after he was dragged with his horse by a river swelling in a storm and coming out alive, he swore to the Immaculate Conception Virgin to build the most beautiful convent”, and he went to the city to start working on the project.
On February 24, 1593, the wealthy Convent of the Immaculate Conception (Convento de la Inmaculada Concepción) was founded. If anyone aspired to be a Conceptionist, pure Spanish blood and a dowry were compulsory. In 1765 the order is recognized by royalty and occupies the whole internal block. It was then able to lodge the nuns in each step of their consecrated lives in different patios.
By a presidential decree issued by Benito Juárez, the order lost the convent in 1861. In that year, the building was occupied by the Orient Army before and after the Battle of Puebla in 1862. During the 20th century it was occupied several times, until it was permanently abandoned. In 1988 it was discovered by a group of investors who decide to undertake an admirable restoration and build what we know now as the Camino Real Hotel Puebla.
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