At the interior at the Main Convent of the Conversion of San Pablo pertaining of the Franciscan community in the city of Quito, we have the Museum of site “Fray Pedro Gocial” that sets the most important collection of cultural goods of all America. Recovered religious art works in painting and sculpture of XVI, XVII, and XVIII centuries.

Within the 6 exhibition rooms, the masterful pieces of Quito’s art. Visit to two of the most important cloisters of the convent, and one of the oldest parts of the interior of the San Francisco Church (XVI century).

HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF CONVENT OF SAN FRANCISCO DE QUITO

A year of the foundation the city of San Francisco de Quito arrives to this city the illustrious Franciscan missionary Father Fray Jodoco Rique, exactly on December 6th, 1535, along with the other friars. more...

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