Architecture sights in Bogotá
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Church of San Francisco
Built between 1557 and 1621, the Church of San Francisco, just west of the Gold Museum, is Bogotá’s oldest surviving church. Of particular interest is the extraordinary 17th-century gilded main altarpiece, which is Bogotá’s largest and most elaborate piece of art of its kind. It’s hard to get a close look, as masses run nearly hourly all day. It’s less intrusive to look up at the green-and-gold Mudejar ornamentation of the ceiling under the organ loft.
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Iglesia del Carmen
The most recently built church in Bogotá's colonial quarter, the Iglesia del Carmen was inaugurated in 1938. It's an impressive piece of architecture, resembling a colorful wedding cake. The interior boasts fine stained-glass windows and a mosaic of the Virgen del Carmen over the high altar.
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Iglesia de San Diego
A lovely whitewashed church built as part of a Franciscan monastery at the beginning of the 17th century. At that time it was well outside the town; today it is surrounded by the forest of high-rise buildings that form the Centro Internacional.
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Iglesia de La Concepción
The Iglesia de La Concepción, the second-oldest existing church in Bogotá (after San Francisco), is noted for its extraordinary Mudejar vault, brought from Seville and installed in the presbytery.
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