{"id":585,"date":"2013-03-06T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/lets-retire-in-mexico\/?p=585"},"modified":"2014-08-20T14:20:08","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T20:20:08","slug":"lets-go-to-valladolid-again-gallery-part-3-monastery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/lets-retire-in-mexico\/2013\/03\/lets-go-to-valladolid-again-gallery-part-3-monastery\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Go to Valladolid, Again! Gallery Part 3 &#8211; Monastery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday and the day before I posted some pictures of the main square and various sights around town in Valladolid, a beautiful, quaint and very non-touristy colonial Mayan town in Yucatan. (See <a title=\"Permanent Link to Let\u2019s Go to Valladolid, Again! Gallery Part 2 \u2013 Around Town\" href=\"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/lets-retire-in-mexico\/2013\/03\/lets-go-to-valladolid-again-gallery-part-2-around-town\/?lang=en\" rel=\"bookmark\">Let\u2019s Go to Valladolid, Again! Gallery Part 2 \u2013 Around Town<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Something you&#8217;ll note if you go to Valladolid, as is the case with many colonial and old European towns, it&#8217;s surprising how many churches and chapels there are in a town that you can probably walk across in half an hour (and I don&#8217;t mean just the downtown &#8211; that&#8217;s from one end of town to the other!)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, I put up some pictures of the main church.\u00a0 Today I am going to share some pictures of the town&#8217;s large monastery (which I believe is still used as a monastery, which is rather rare for colonial Mexican monasteries and convents) and the surrounding neighborhood:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Valladolid - Monastery\" src=\"https:\/\/i255.photobucket.com\/albums\/hh138\/beatlo\/Valladolid\/IMG_3914_zps4dce4685.jpg\" alt=\"Retirement Travel in Mexico\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Valladolid - Monastery\" src=\"https:\/\/i255.photobucket.com\/albums\/hh138\/beatlo\/Valladolid\/IMG_3916_zps789af2e9.jpg\" alt=\"Retirement Travel in Mexico\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Valladolid - Monastery\" src=\"https:\/\/i255.photobucket.com\/albums\/hh138\/beatlo\/Valladolid\/IMG_3918_zps8b69f294.jpg\" alt=\"Retirement Travel in Mexico\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Valladolid - A Little Neighborhood Plaza near the Monastery\" src=\"https:\/\/i255.photobucket.com\/albums\/hh138\/beatlo\/Valladolid\/IMG_3912_zps9ec1480e.jpg\" alt=\"Retirement Travel in Mexico\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Valladolid - The Street Leading to the Monastery from downtown\" src=\"https:\/\/i255.photobucket.com\/albums\/hh138\/beatlo\/Valladolid\/IMG_3909_zps62cc3ec9.jpg\" alt=\"Retirement Travel in Mexico\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s rare to find a town that is so charming and authentic, yet almost completely undiscovered that is so close to major tourist centers like Playa del Carmen, Cancun, Merida and Chichen Itza (in fact, it is smack dab in the middle of all of these, and only between 30 min and 2 hours away from each of them.)\u00a0 This is truly an undiscovered gem and great place for retirement travel in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>TOPMexicoRealEstate.com<\/strong><\/a><strong>; Mexico&#8217;s Leading Network of Specialists for Finding and Purchasing Mexican Properties Safely<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.topmexicorealestate.com\/real-estate-books\/?web=Blog\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/dashboard.lloyd-team.com\/1-images\/Banners\/Banner261-A.jpeg \" alt=\"Mexico Real Estate e-book\" width=\"464\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday and the day before I posted some pictures of the main square and various sights around town in Valladolid, a beautiful, quaint and very non-touristy colonial Mayan town in Yucatan. 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