The School of Architecture of Universidad Panamericana campus Bonaterra in Aguascalientes traveled to Guadalajara city for a visit to Centro Cultural Cabañas designed by Manuel Tolsá, Degollado Theater built by Jacobo Gálvez and Parroquia El Expiatorio del Santísimo Sacramento designed by the prestigious architect Adamo Boari.

Cabañas Cultural Center

The Cabañas Museum, whose headquarters is the Hospicio Cabañas, owes its name to Bishop Juan Cruz Ruiz de Cabañas y Crespo, who arrived in Mexico in 1796 with the purpose of building a shelter for orphaned, elderly and homeless children. Bishop Cabañas asked the Valencian architect Manuel Tolsá to design this important project and, in turn, Tolsá commissioned his student José Gutiérrez to carry out the work. Due to its neoclassical architecture, the Hospicio Cabañas is one of the most significant and emblematic buildings in Jalisco and Mexico. It has recorded the most important political and social events of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Degollado Theater

In the middle of the 19th century, the idea of ​​building a dignified theater for the inhabitants of the city began to take shape. There was a great demand for a large theater in Guadalajara that would show the cultural arts of the city. In response to the demand, on October 1, 1855, Antonio Pérez Verdía proposed the construction of the Alarcón Theater in honor of the classical playwright Juan Ruiz de Alarcón to the then acting governor, Santos Degollado. On December 12 of that same year, Degollado signed the official decree to build the structure, and in March 1856 Degollado placed the first cornerstone of the building. In April 1856, Jacobo Gálvez was appointed to direct the initial construction of the theater.

Expiatory Temple of the Blessed Sacrament
Project by Arq. Adamo Boari, a famous Italian architect brought by the then President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz who would later work on the projects for the Palacio de Bellas Artes and the Palacio del Correo Mayor in Mexico City.

The first stone was laid on August 15, 1897 and by the year 1911, the interior columns and the numbers at the height of the capitals were already finished. The works were suspended during the Revolution, due to religious persecution, the lack of conditions and the serious economic crisis that the country was going through due to the armed conflict.

The Expiatory Temple of the Blessed Sacrament is an impressive building that represents one of the best examples of the neogotic style of architecture developed in México.