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San Francisco Church And Convent: San Francisco de Asis (2)
  • By El_Sueco on August 21, 2004
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  • San Franscisco de Asis - Lima
    San Franscisco de Asis
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    Note the beautifyl facade. Also note all the doves that are resting there. (Outside the church there are people selling grains to the tourists to feed the doves, so the doves will stay ...)

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  • Directions: Just Next To The Plaza Mayor

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    San Francisco Church And Convent: IGLESIA-CONVENTO DE SAN FRANCISCO
  • By RORRO72 on March 29, 2003
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  • Iglesia-Convento de San Francisco - Lima
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    Para muchos la joya colonial de Lima, es su convento más grande. Fundado en 1546, la iglesia actual es en realidad la segunda construida, entre 1657 y 1672, por el alarife portugués Constantino de Vasconcellos y el peruano Manuel de Escobar. El conjunto arquitectónico lo forman también las capillas de la Soledad y el Milagro.

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  • Phone: (51) 1 4271381

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    San Francisco Church And Convent: The Catacombs
  • By VolsUT on March 23, 2006
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  • The Catacombs hold the remains of over 40,000 people! You can see all their bones

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  • Directions: Just Next To The Plaza Mayor

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    San Francisco Church And Convent: Tales from the Crypt
  • By intiqori on December 17, 2007
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  • The San Francisco Monastery is a church near downtown Lima’s main square, built in traditional Moorish style. It is renowned for housing centuries of the city’s dead in overflowing catacombs underneath its foundations, but it is also home to several pieces of historical religious artwork and a library housing thousands of volumes of centuries old texts and parchments. Now filled with local school children and visiting tourists, the monastery bustles with activity. Several guides lead groups around the monastery, highlighting the history of the church and its historical artifacts, and the highlight of the tour for many are the stacks of skulls and bones in the crypts underneath the structure. Overall, the monastery is well worth a visit if you are visiting downtown Lima.

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    San Francisco Church And Convent: Cathedral Interior
  • By thebeatsurrender on June 20, 2007
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  • San Francisco Church And Convent - Lima
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    The cathedral interior of San Francisco monastary is really pretty. It's red and white, with more light than many other cathedrals I've seen. There's a balcony that overlooks the pews.

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    San Francisco Church And Convent: San Francisco Church and Convent
  • By lashr1999 on May 6, 2006
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    San Francisco Church and
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    The church and convent of San Francisco was built around 1674. The exterior of the building is a yellow colonial styled structure with Baroque architecture. Upon entering you pay $2 for a 45 minute tour. On your tour you first see the church with its wood carvings and tiles. Next, you walk to a monastery with a museum of religious art. Paintings by the local artist Francisco Zurbarán and painting of the life of Saint Francis of Assisi can be seen here. As you continue walking you are taken to a library with an impressive collection of over 25 thousand books. This room houses massive choir books on floor stands. As you continue walking you end up in the convent area where at the far end of the dining area is a huge painting of the Last Supper. The artist added some Peruvian elements to the scene. The apostles and Jesus are dining on cuy, roast guinea pig and drinking Chicha, an alcoholic Peruvian corn drink from a gold Peruvian cup called a queros. We next walked near a courtyard with various plants and walkways before heading to the main attraction of the catacombs. The catacombs served as a cemetery until 1821. At first church members were buried here. Later, it served as a public burial ground for the poor, slaves and servants who were placed in a labyrinth of wells 10-20 meters deep. The bodies were stacked in wells and covered with lime. After they decomposed, the bones were arranged elsewhere. It is estimated that over 70,000 bodies were kept here. Some bones are scattered. Other bones are arranged in different ways. There are places where the skull is places in the middle and bones radiate outwards like a spider. The church and catacombs are quite a unique experience to say the least.

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  • Directions: Just Next To The Plaza Mayor

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    San Francisco Church And Convent: See the convent and the catacombs
  • By gonzo747 on January 16, 2006
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    The convent is full of huge paintings, a massive library and much more. The catacombs were amazing. I didn't take any pictures of th catacombs, didn't felt confortabel to take pictures of human bones. There are tours in Spanish and English

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    San Francisco Church And Convent: Catacombs, A Must See.
  • By Pinkykitty on March 8, 2005
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  • Catacomb - Lima
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    The famous catacomb of Lima, the place where the Spanish buried their people, is located inside the San Francisco Convent (Convento de San Francisco). You can walk from the presidential palace to this convent and pay a small fee to have a guided tour in English or Spanish. They may have other languages available. You get to see old religious paintings and a peaceful courtyard and admire the beatiful architecture of the old convent. Usually, the last thing they show you is the catacomb. Built using egss shells and bird poo, this catacomb is the resting place of hundreds of people. They say it used to be a lot larger, but they destroyed most of it to build roads. Some rumors say that there is a secret passage inside the catacomb that can lead you to the secret treasure of the Incas. They are just rumors, of course.

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  • Directions: A block from the Presidential Palace.

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    San Francisco Church And Convent: San Francisco de Asis (4)
  • Updated By El_Sueco on May 13, 2003
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  • The garden in the monastery - Lima
    The garden in the monastery
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    The garden.

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    San Francisco Church And Convent: The Library
  • By thebeatsurrender on June 20, 2007
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    The library at San Francisco Monastary is exhuisitely well preserved. The highlight of the library is the set of gorgeous, tightly spiraled staircases on each side.

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