Pueblito los dominicos

This guide to Pueblito Los Dominicos in Santiago follows the old hacienda east of the city from a 1544 land grant to Inés de Suárez, the only woman counted among Chile's conquistadors, through the Cranisbro family who built a small chapel here for two children they had lost, to the Dominican friars who inherited the estate on one condition. It traces the church of San Vicente Ferrer the friars raised beside it, and the independence-era guerrilla Manuel Rodríguez said to have sheltered within these walls. Listen for the sound of the woodcarvers still working inside the old cattle stalls.