Patio Andaluz Hotel Quito

Santa Clara

It was built in the XVII century by one of the most important architects of the Colony. He was the Franciscan Antonio Rodriguez. At first, it was an humble chapel. It was devastated by an earthquake in 1639.

This Quito's church and monastery has: one tower with bells, and a 18th century retable. This retable was made by a great artist from the Colony: Manuel de Samaniego. It also has an lowered room and and an alter built in Germany.

This rel...

Capilla de los Milagros

It was built inside Quito's colonial downtown in 1680, and restored in 1990. Its architecture is simple and colourful. Its walls contain important art pieces such as the charming and mysterious image of Senor de los Milagros, which represents the terrible scene of gibe that received Jesus at Pilatos home. There is also an image of El Senor de los Milagros made in stone.

San Marcos

This is a small temple from the 16th century. The...

San Sebastian

Constructedinside Quito's colonial downtown, in 1570, it belongs to the first parish in Quito. It was designated to Indian people, because in this place had existed the entrance to the Royal Way to the Inca city.
It has a simple but beautiful entrance door with a strong tower. It is part of a joined of a new church constructed in 1925, with a big square and its atrium. There are art pieces such as the sculpture of San Sebastian from the 17th century, which wa...

San Diego

It is a church and a monastery constructed inside Quito's colonial downtown, on request of the villagers of San Diego in 1559 and was finished in 1625, after the renewed religious orders after the Trento's council. Father Bartolome Rubio was de director of the construction. Is has only one nave, with a brick dome, strong walls and beautiful coffered. Its front door has got a cattail. The ensemble is complete with the monastery, formed with three cloisters, with half arc...

San Blas

Built in 1568 and rebuilt in 1713 and 1969. It is located in one of the parish, which was at first designated to the indigenes. It is rounded by the square of its same name, which was also the limit of Quito in a past time.

The church has only got one regular and large nave, which end in an octagonal form. The façade is beautiful made in stone, with two columns, besides a tower with its bell. It is part of the ensemble with the parish house.
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Quito Museums

Quito’s museums show us the great cultural richness, which made out of Quito one of the Humanity Patrimony declared. We can find different issues: religious and colonial art represented in paintings, sculptures; aborigines and Inca’s archeology pieces; art expositions from the modern and ethnic Republic, which represent the when Quitos identity and beauty.

Alberto Mena Caamaño

It is located in the old building where the R...

Hotel Patio AndaluzQuitowas part of the ancestral site of the city of San Francisco de Quito at its foundation. It is located in the parish of Santa Barbara, the most antique one, according to Padre Juan de Velasco's narrations.

By the end of the 16th century it belonged to Marquis Juan Sanchez de Jerez an activist during the ‘Alcabala' revolution. His successors, the Freire de Bohorquez family is mentioned in the narrations of the family of the Marquis of Sel...

We arrive at midnight exhausted by many hours spent travelling. Our jounrye here was fraught with delays and missed connections and brought back phrases from one of my favourite movies, Enchanted April "We're in God's hands now, Lottie!", when the Lottie and Rose, abroad for the first time, step trustingly into a carriage they hope is taking them to their rented Italian villa. We actually either said this phrase, or thought it every time we stepped into a cab throughout the trip! And like Lot...