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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Framing the entrance to the museum, to the right of the bell tower, there is a ceramic mural in honor of Fray Mamerto Esquiú by Elsa Salfity (1931-2004), a well-known artist and teacher from Salta. Made between 1976 and 1978, the 16 m2 mural consists of two large vertical reliefs and a horizontal one in the tympanum. They pay homage to Fray Mamerto Esquiú, Argentine friar and bishop (1826 - 1883), famous for his sermon in defense of the Constitution of 1853, the constitution that laid the legal foundations of the State of the current Argentine Republic.
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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.