Museo Santa Clara
Gilded wooden ceiling of nearly a thousand carved flowers above a cloistered colonial convent church.
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This guide to Museo Santa Clara in Bogotá follows the Poor Clare nuns who entered the convent in a solemn procession in 1630 and never left its walls again, and the gilded garden of carved wooden flowers built into the ceiling for women who were never allowed to see a real one. You'll hear how the builders imagined Jesus as a gardener and the nuns as golden roses, safe from every season outside. Enter through the same crooked side door the congregation once used, angled so no one could glimpse a nun behind her grille.
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