Iglesia y Convento de San Francisco

Panama City


Like other Panamá Viejo churches, this is among the settlement's most outstanding structures: rectangular, with stone outer walls, timber roofs, internal wooden supports and a lack of towers. Building began on the complex in 1589. The adjoining convent had inner courts surrounded by wooden galleries, and the larger ones had enclosed gardens and orchards.


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