General Information
Project Type
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Church |
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Location
| Location: |
Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Santiago, Chile |
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| Coordinates: | 33° 26' 36.50" S 70° 38' 51.23" W |
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Excerpt from Wikipedia
The San Francisco Church (Spanish: Iglesia de San Francisco) is a Franciscan church on Avenida Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins, in the downtown of Santiago de Chile. The church, along with the adjacent convent, is one of the oldest colonial-era buildings in the country.
The church was consecrated in 1622. The bell tower was destroyed by an earthquake in 1647, while the rest of the building successfully resisted it. In 1730 another earthquake badly damaged the rebuilt tower, which was demolished in 1751. The current bell tower is of Victorian architecture and was constructed in the mid-1800s. Its architect was Fermín Vivaceta and features a distinctive clock.
In the early years of the 20th century, a part of the convent was sold and demolished to build the Barrio París-Londres. The other part is the current home of the Museo Colonial.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Iglesia de San Francisco, Santiago de Chile" and modified on June 3, 2020 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
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data sheet - Structure-ID
20012411 - Published on:
04/07/2004 - Last updated on:
28/05/2021
