Santa Cruz Center Touristic
Center Tourist in Santa Cruz
- 14 of September Main Square
- Metropolitan Cathedral
- Cathedral Museum of Sacred Art
- Saint Andrews Church
- Saint Roque Church
”Plaza 14 de Septiembre” ( Main Square )
The “Plaza 14 de Septiembre” main square is one of the most important meeting points of the city. Here, a magnificent cathedral could be found (which has a museum in it), the “Casa de la Cultura” (House of Culture) (used as art gallery) and the “Palacio Prefectural” (Prefecture’s Palace) .
Metropolitan Cathedral
This church was built by Brother Mercedario Diego de Porres during the times of the Spanish Viceroy Toledo. In 1770 Bishop Ramón de Herbosos reconstructed the Church and commended this task to Don Antonio Lombardo. In 1838 the old temple was replaced by a new church of eclectic style, designed by French architect Felipe Bestres. It is remarkable for its wooden vaults and for the pictorial decoration that covers them. In the main altar a part of the original silver covering from the Jesuit mission of San Pedro de Moxos is preserved. Four sculptural reliefs are also exhibited that come from the same mission.
Museo Catedralicio de Arte Sacro ( Cathedral Museum of Sacred Art )
The Cathedral Museum has an impressive historical, artistic and material wealth. Their silver works show the quality of the craftmanship of the artisans of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It keeps the oldest ecclesiastical Bolivian jewel donated to the church in 1603.
Iglesia de San Andrés ( Saint Andrews Church )
It has a wooden structure of three vessels, with 18 columns on a masonry stand that is contained inside a wooden pitch. The structure is ahead on the facade, creating a veranda decorated with wood carved fronton, with Baroque vegetable themes. The veranda resembles distantly to the Greek temples, with typical fronton decorated with statues.
Iglesia de San Roque ( Saint Roque Church )
It is built on wooden pitches, disposed in forms of columns. The temple has three wooden vessels in wooden and external eaves. The roof of tiles rests on a hurdle lattice. The church was remodeled in the second half of the nineteenth century by the Argentinean architect Bustamante.
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