 Founded in 1550 by the agustinos monks the San Agustin Convent is a magnificient fortress. From the moment in which we enter the low claustro, it surprises the majesty of its corridors, with
beautiful gothic ribbings, and their walls adorned with painted
Biblical scenes.
In
the high part we can cross one to one the cells in which, suddenly, we
felt that some agustino monk is going to appear praying
by its eternal rest, next to one of the windows by which it is reached
to watch the lagoon. All this construction was half-destroyed by a terrible
fire in 1815, but luckyly it could be recovered in the same century.
At the moment is guarded by personnel of the National Anthropology Institute and History and works like a museum.
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