Instituto Cultural Helénico, Cultural temple in Avenida Revolución, Mexico City, Mexico.

The Instituto Cultural Helénico occupies a compound at Avenida Revolución 1500 assembled by architect Luis Ortiz Macedo in the garden of collector Nicolás González Jáuregui. It joins a 12th-century Romanesque cloister and 14th-century Gothic chapel carved in Ávila, a 16th-century coffered ceiling from the castle of Vélez-Blanco, and a 17th-century Baroque doorway frame from Guanajuato.

The Gothic chapel and Romanesque cloister were carved in Ávila in the 12th and 14th centuries and belonged to the same monastery. William Randolph Hearst bought them in the 1920s and shipped the dismantled stones to New York, where they stayed crated in a port warehouse through the 1929 Depression. In 1954 Nicolás González Jáuregui acquired them, and in 1979 the complex was donated to the Instituto Cultural Helénico, founded in 1973 by the Greek Orthodox bishop Pablo de Ballester.

The institute was founded in 1973 by the Greek Orthodox bishop Pablo de Ballester, which explains the Greek name of a centre devoted to Mexican and Spanish art. Its rooms hold Flemish gobelins, French and Spanish stained glass, stone statues from France and paintings attributed to Murillo and Giovanni Bellini, collected by Nicolás González Jáuregui.

The complex stands at Avenida Revolución 1500; the Gothic chapel, Romanesque cloister galleries, Renaissance coffered ceiling and Baroque doorway are assembled together, so a single walk covers all four. Look for the French and Spanish stained glass and the Flemish tapestries added by collector Nicolás González Jáuregui. Confirm opening times before travelling, as the institute runs cultural programmes rather than fixed museum hours.

Only two medieval Spanish-built structures exist in the Americas: this Gothic chapel with its Romanesque cloister, and the Monastery of Sacramenia in Florida. The chapel and cloister came from the same monastery in Ávila and were shipped to New York by William Randolph Hearst in the 1920s, then bought in 1954 by Nicolás González Jáuregui.