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In pre-Columbian Quito, the current lands of the Basilica and Convent of San Francisco were occupied by the royal palace of the Inca Huayna Cápac, [3] before the advance of the armies commanded by the Spanish from the south and the impossibility of defending the city the indigenous general Rumiñahui ordered its total destruction.
Español: Iglesia y Plaza de San Francisco, en la ciudad de Quito, con la plaza ajardinada al estilo francés (1920). ... Basilica and Convent of San Francisco, Quito;
Convent of San Francisco may refer to: Basilica and Convent of San Francisco in Lima, Peru; Basilica and Convent of San Francisco in Quito, Ecuador; Convent of San Francisco in Mexico City, Mexico; Palace of the Convent of San Francisco in Granada, Spain
In the foreground (lower left part of the photo) is the hill of San Juan neighborhood with the cathedral known as Basílica del Voto Nacional, a few hundred meters away from Itchimbía. Convento de San Francisco (Saint Francis Convent) (upper right of the photo) as seen from Itchimbía. Itchimbía is a hill in Quito, Pichincha Province, Ecuador.
There are a bit more than 30 Churches & Capilla's in the Historic Center of Quito, the best-preserved, least altered historic center in Latin America. In Spanish, (El Centro Histórico de Quito ) was constructed on what was once a 16th century Inca city at 2,850 meters above sea level in the Andes Mountains near the Equator .
Plaza de San Francisco in Quito. The Plaza de San Francisco (“Saint Francis Square”) is a major public square in the Historic Center of Quito, Ecuador, upon which faces La Iglesia y Monasterio de San Francisco (the Church and Convent of St. Francis) from which it takes its name. [1]
The site was assigned to the Augustinian order in 1573, when they began construction of the convent, although the church would only be built between 1606 and 1617 by Juan del Corral, based on the plans designed by the architect Francisco Becerra in 1581, who also worked on the design of the Church of Santo Domingo.
Español: Vista superior de la nave principal de la iglesia de San Francisco, Quito, Ecuador. El templo católico, finalizado en el siglo XVII, es el mayor complejo arquitectónico de origen colonial en toda Latinoamérica. La iglesia destaca también por la amalgama de diferentes estilos arquitectónicos, dado a que su construcción se ...