Museum of Religious Art San Francisco de Asis
Museum of Religious Art San Francisco de Asis the museum is beautiful, and every inch of telling a story.
Pediment, pilasters, symmetry: all the baroque architectural syntax is reflected in the lines of the facade. This Cuban baroque, more soberly made, stuck in 1720 to the original sanctuary that threatened ruin. In 1842 the church was transformed into a warehouse and 4 years later a cyclone struck the apse, which was replaced by a trompe l'oeil. Since 1990 the church has been cared for as it deserves and hosts classical music concerts in a nave with irreproachable acoustics. The cloister galleries have been transformed into a Museum of Religious Art.