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Virgen de Guadalupe ‘La Ermita’

Virgen de Guadalupe ‘La Ermita’ is a small neighbourhood chapel tucked along the historic Calzada Ermita Iztapalapa in the El Santuario barrio of Iztapalapa, Mexico City. Modest in size and quiet in atmosphere, it is a living point of devotion rather than a monument, best appreciated by travellers following the layered religious geography of southern Mexico City. What gives it character is its address: it sits on one of the city's oldest causeways, in a district named ‘El Sanctuary’, within a borough whose faith life revolves around the famous Sanctuary of the Señor de la Cuevita. For visitors, the appeal is intimacy—an authentic local house of worship far from the crowds of the capital's grand cathedrals.