San Francisco Convent

San Francisco is the largest religious complex in South America, built in 1536 and completed 70 years later. Within its walls was developed the renowned "Escuela Quiteña".In its seven cloisters there are numerous rooms of great magnitude such as the refectory (the largest of the convents of Quito) an ideal space for plenary meetings; the auditorium of the Franciscan Faculty Cardinal Bernardino Echeverría that currently operates there, and a set of parallel rooms of great historical significance and extraordinary architectural beauty.Marvel at one of the most important collections of colonial religious art in the Americas and experience the splendor and stillness of an architecture created for eternity.