San Francisco Church and Convent
The Franciscan temple of Salta, with its emblematic bell tower and intense terracotta colors, constitutes a whole cultural complex with a museum of sacred art, library and archive.
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The magnificent bell tower, 54 m high, built in 1877 by the Swiss Francisco Righetti on a project of the German José Enrique Teodoro Rauch, is divided into four superimposed bodies whose square bases taper upwards and whose columns are respectively of Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and composite order. Each body has a perimeter balustrade with vases as pinnacles at the corners.
© Photo, summary: Binder & Haupt, Universes in Universe
The Franciscan temple of Salta, with its emblematic bell tower and intense terracotta colors, constitutes a whole cultural complex with a museum of sacred art, library and archive.