Church
Metropolitan Cathedral of Santiago
Pl. de Armas 498, 8320341 Santiago, Región Metropolitana
Fifth cathedral on its site, rebuilt after fire and earthquakes with a neoclassical stone facade and gilded baroque interior.
This guide to the Metropolitan Cathedral of Santiago traces the 1769 fire that destroyed the fourth cathedral on this site, sparked by a single spilled drop of oil from the lamp kept burning beside the tabernacle, and the one painting, a Virgin of Sorrows, carried out through the Puerta del Perdón. It follows Bishop Juan González Melgarejo's push to rebuild, and architect Joaquín Toesca's two decades shaping the stone walls and neoclassical lines finished by Ignacio Cremonesi in 1906.
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