Church and Convent of San Francisco, Quito

The Church and Monastery of St. Francis commonly known as el San Francisco, is a sixteenth-century Roman Catholic complex in Quito, Ecuador. It fronts onto its namesake Plaza de San Francisco. The implementing structure has the difference of being the largest architectural ensemble most of the ancient structures of colonial Latin America and because of this is occasionally called El Escorial of the New Worl The fashion developed over almost 150 years of creation 1534-1680 thru earthquakes and changes in inventive fashion. The facade of the main Church displays,

for the primary time in South America, Mannerist factors, which later became a reference point for that fashion inside the rest of the continent. The severity of the constructing's Renaissance and Mannerist outdoors contrasts with the inner ornament of the Church, wherein Mudejar and Baroque elements bathe the nave, chapels, and excessive altar in an exotic golden splendour. In its nave and aisles, the Church of San Francisco exhibits its Mudejar Moorish coffered ceilings, lavishly embellished altarpieces, and columns fashoned in distinctive patterns.