Interesting Tourist places and things

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Catedral Basilica de Salta – Salta, Argentina


Painted in pink and yellow, the Cathedral of Salta, Argentina looks like a beautifully shaped strawberry and vanilla ice-cream good enough to eat. It was completely destroyed in the 17th century and its reconstruction lasted until 1882.



Catedral Basilica de Salta houses an important religious relic, El Senor de Los Milagros (The Lord of Miracles), a statuette of Jesus Christ which was being transported by a Spanish ship that sank in Argentinean waters. It was miraculously washed ashore intact and placed in the Cathedral of Salta. Three important historical figures are buried here, of which general Martin Miguel de Guemes, who defeated the invading Spanish, is the most important.

Catedral Primada – Bogota, Colombia


The biggest cathedral in Colombia and one of the biggest in South America, the Primary Cathedral of Bogota was built between 1807 and 1823. When the Spanish founded Bogota, they built 12 huts and a hay-church that later became the Cathedral of Bogota, so you could say it is as old as the city.

The Roman-Catholic Church of Bogota is a fine example of colonial religious architecture and houses a number of paintings by Gregorio Vasquez de Arce y Ceballos, the most important painter in colonial Colombia. Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada, founder of Bogota, is buried here.


Catedral de la Inmaculada Conception – Cuelca, Ecuador


Also referred to as the New Cathedral of Cuenca, the Inmaculada Conception Cathedral is located opposite Calderon Park, in Cuenca, Ecuador. Because the old cathedral had become too small for the growing population, construction of a new cathedral began in 1885 and lasted for a century.

The New Cathedral of Cuenca combines many different architectural styles, with Romanesque being the most obvious one. It features 3 beautiful domes, covered with blue tiles brought in all the way from Czechoslovakia.