Place of worship
Convent of the Shoeless
Alameda de los Descalzos, Rímac 15093
Franciscan friary museum with a colonial-era apothecary, infirmary, and centuries of viceregal paintings.
This guide to the Convent of the Shoeless in Lima follows Andres Corso, a teenage page to the viceroy who joined the barefoot Franciscans in 1595 and spent six decades building the friary himself, as gardener, carpenter, mason and porter. It also visits the convent's botica, the friars' pharmacy, where untrained monks ground remedies from European recipes and Andean plant lore.
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