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E-mail pageCapilla de Porta Coeli
Museums / Galleries, Religious Sites, San Germán
Fodor's Review:
One of the oldest religious buildings in the Americas, this mission-style chapel overlooks the long, rectangular Plazuela de Santo Domingo. It's not a grand building, but its position at the top of a stone stairway gives it a noble air. Queen Isabel Segunda decreed that the Dominicans should build a church and monastery in San Germán, so a rudimentary building was built in 1609, replaced in 1692 by the structure that can still be seen today. (Sadly, most of the monastery was demolished in 1866, leaving only a vestige of its facade.) The chapel now functions as a museum of religious art, displaying painted wooden statuary by Latin American and Spanish artists.
INFO
- Address: East end of Plazuela Santo Domingo, San German
- Phone: 787/892-5845
- Web site
- Cost: Free
- Open: Wed.-Sun. 8:30-4:20
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