Iglesia Nuestra Señora de las Nieves
Romanesque-Byzantine church rebuilt after 1917, its two bell towers deliberately mismatched.
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This guide to Nuestra Senora de las Nieves in Bogota starts with a puzzle: why the church's two bell towers rise to different heights. It traces the colonial church that stood on this spot from the 1560s, the 1917 earthquake that cracked it apart, and the rebuilding under architect Arturo Jaramillo that followed. Conservators are currently stripping graffiti and grime from the artificial-stone facade, dabbing on mortars meant to protect the surface underneath rather than replace it.
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