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CHURCH OF SAN SERVACIO (SAINT SERVATIUS)

The church of Saint Servatius is in the city downtown, on the south side of the main square. It substitutes the one erected on March 24, 1545 by Father Francisco Hernandez, in which the main façade looked towards the West, as most colonial times temples in Yucatan did. In 1705, the original church was partially demolished by order of Bishop Don Pedro de los Reyes Ríos because of it's profanation in the so called "Crime of the Mayors."

In 1706 begins the construction of the one we see today and to make its main access to look towards the main square, it was given a new orientation, which is the reason why the facade of this church looks towards the North, instead of the West.

Placed in the main facade is a stone-carved shield, with arabesques, a royal crown and in the center, a white sparrow hawk and a palm. To the sides of the façade's main body rise two square towers composed of three bodies; above the main facade is a 19th century clock, the only public one in the city. The building is composed on the inside by a nave, a fore-sacristy and a sacristy and on the outside by an atrium and an annex, it has a surface of 6658 m2.