Editing New Spain (section)

==Culture, art, and architecture==
{{Main|Mexican art|Mexican architecture}}
The capital of Viceroyalty of New Spain, Mexico City, was one of the principal centers of European cultural expansion in the Americas. Some of the most important early buildings in New Spain were churches and other religious architecture. Civil architecture included the viceregal palace, now the National Palace, and the Mexico City town council (''cabildo''), both located on the main square in the capital.

The [[House of the First Print Shop in the Americas|first printing press in the New World]] was brought to Mexico in 1539, by printer [[Juan Pablos]] (Giovanni Paoli). The first book printed in Mexico was entitled "''La escala espiritual de San Juan Clímaco''". In 1568, [[Bernal Díaz del Castillo]] finished ''La Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva España''. Figures such as [[Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz]], [[Juan Ruiz de Alarcón]], and don [[Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora]], stand out as some of the viceroyalty's most notable contributors to [[Spanish literature]]. In 1693, Sigüenza y Góngora published ''El Mercurio Volante'', the first newspaper in New Spain.

Architects Pedro Martínez Vázquez and Lorenzo Rodriguez produced some visually frenetic architecture known as [[churrigueresque]] in the capital, [[Ocotlán, Tlaxcala|Ocotlan]], [[Puebla, Puebla|Puebla]] and some remote silver-mining towns. Composers including [[Manuel de Zumaya]], [[Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla]], and [[Antonio de Salazar (composer)|Antonio de Salazar]] were active from the early 1500s through the [[Baroque music|Baroque period of music]].