Concá is the smallest of the Sierra Gorda missions in Querétaro. Do you already know it?
Taking the road from Jalpan and in the opposite direction to Landa, you reach Concá, the smallest of the missions. It is in a hot zone and falls 600 meters above sea level.
The façade of Concá has a peculiar finish: La Santísima Trinidad in its version — no longer used — of three people, here three identical young people stepping on a globe. Below, Saint Michael the Archangel - who is like God? - has the devil chained under his feet. The group rests on the skylight framed in curtains that reveal angels. At his feet, the Franciscan shield and two other angels holding a crown on it. On the sides, in that second body, San Roque with his dog and San Fernando Rey.
The entrance has a low alfiz arch. It is guarded, within its niches, by the sculptures (very damaged) of San Francisco and, probably, of San Antonio de Padua. Singular are, in the buttresses that delimit the portal, two animals similar to monkeys, which try to reach the columns of the auction. Fathers Samaniego, Murguía, Magaña and Pérez de Osornio worked here.
In Concá, the passerby finds a parador, in the ex-farm of San Nicolás, amidst truly paradisiacal vegetation and landscapes.
