Basilica de Nuestra Señora de La Soledad

Basilica de Nuestra Señora de La Soledad (Church of the Virgin of Solitude) is a beautiful 16^th-century church, whose ornate façade is studded with statues. The church is most famous for its shrine containing Oaxaca’s patron saint, the Virgin of Solitude. This statue of the Virgin mysteriously appeared in the pack of a mule that died where the church now stands. The statue, which supposedly has special healing powers, is greatly revered and people come from afar to ask for miracles.