Museo de Arte Colonial de San Francisco

This guide to the Museo de Arte Colonial de San Francisco in Santiago traces the monastery back to Pedro de Valdivia's 1541 founding of the city and the carved Virgin he credited with saving his men. You'll hear how a string of earthquakes, starting in 1583, kept tearing down the church and its bell tower over four centuries, and how the cloister behind it grew into a garden of centuries-old trees, koi, turtles and peacocks. A cycle of Cusco-workshop paintings from the 1670s and 80s hangs inside the galleries.