San Francisco museum
 The
temple of San Francisco of Quito is the religious construction of
greater extension in the region. There 4 thousand objects are lodged,
between sculptures, linen cloths and furniture. The most beautiful
convent of America. With 3.5 hectares, San Francisco is an impressive
structure. From 1983 the International has been taken part by the
Spanish Agency of Cooperation and the Institute of Cultural Patrimony.
In 1996 a sector of the temple for the San Francisco museum adapted.
And today in this place 250 works are exhibited, of authors like
Miguel of Santiago, Caspicara and Legarda. The museum Fray Pedro
Gocial with hundreds of colonial pieces was inaugurated. There are
three allegories that have with magic to San Francisco, temple founded
by Fray Jodoco Ricke on 1535.
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One says that there, in pre-Columbian times, a
center of commercial interchange between the dominions worked.
Also one talks about, from the Colony, that Felipe II of Spain
showed itself to the windows of the Dump to see the cupolas of the
Quito temple and to comment the face that him was being the work. And, finally, towards 1600 the mythical Cantuña is the
center of a architectonic-demonic feat when attributing him to it,
popularly, the construction of the vestibule. |
The good thing is that until now it lacks a
stone, in one of the bajantes of water of the perrons: for that reason
its soul not yet has been caught by Satan. But the legend is single one of their wealth. The
same construction represents a feat, because the plant of the convent
must overcome the pronounced inclination of the skirts of the
Pichincha. And already in their interior, the gold of the incario and
the talent of craftsmen of the Quito School register the stamp that
turns to the place unique.. Near 4 thousand works, between sculptures,
linen cloths, painting mural, adorned with caissons and furniture, are
distributed by an area of 3.5 hectares, with a central temple, two
main chapels, three cloisters, an abbey, an orchard and a nostalgic
brewery.
From 1983, the Spanish Agency of Cooperation the International and the
Institute of Cultural Patrimony work in the integral recovery of the
complex. At the moment a 50 percent with a considered cost of USD 1
200 000 has advanced. At the moment 20 Ecuadorian technicians make
workings of restoration and conservation. Thus, thousand objects of
art have recovered. 250 of them are exhibited from 1996 in two
galleries that adapted for the Museum of San Francisco.
The route begins by the choir of the church, a
precious cockpit with capacity for 61 friars, crossed by two organs
German and decorated by an exquisite one adorned with caissons of
style to mudéjar, compound of 4,600 wood pieces, in whose center there
is a peculiar star of eight ends.
From this site it is descended to the rooms of
exhibition, where works of Miguel of Santiago (like emblematic "the
Immaculate Eucaristía"), Diego de Robles are appraised, the Father
Carlos, Manuel Chili "Caspicara", Bernardine of Legarda, Gregorio de
Vásquez, Mateo Mejia, engravings German of century XVIII and a map of
South America painted in 1775. The end of the visit is towards the
North end of the convent, in the old brewery created by the friars in
1566. In his room of welcome there is a tavern and in the later one it
is the gallery and the instruments with which the drink was prepared.
Address: Cuenca 477 and Sucre in La Plaza de San
Francisco
Open: Monday - Saturday from 09h00 to 18h00; Sunday from 09h00 to
13h00
Telephone: 228 1124, 228 2545 |
