Church of Santa Rosa

This guide to the Church of Santa Rosa in Lima follows the bargain its garden's namesake struck four centuries ago, when the young Isabel Flores de Oliva offered her own skin to the mosquitoes tormenting her family rather than let them be harmed. It traces how that same garden produced the roses she is remembered for and a rooster her mother wanted killed for dinner, before leading you to the deep well at the courtyard's center, where a spiked chain she once wore around her waist met its end. Pilgrims still lower letters into that water today.