So, I said good bye to some of my friends this weekend. They went to Puerto Mont (sp?) and I didn't feel like spending a $190 on an airplane ticket for a 2 day weekend... Call me cheap but I'd rather take the bus...Any who, feeling bored I decided to go check out Plaza de Armas today. It's an old historical square, and a lot of cities in Latin America have a least one. So there's a lot of them.
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| Sm room on left. |
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| statue on top corner. |
I went there because I wanted to check out the Iglesia Catedral de Santiago. It's huge! and one of the pretties Cathedrals I have ever seen! I had a hard time fitting the whole thing in a picture. I'll definitely go back to explore the square more, and take some more pictures. This place is cool though, and it was surprisingly cool inside (considering it was pretty hot outside). When you walk in off to the right is smaller room with an altar in it. I'm not really sure what kinds of masses are done in there but it was a lot brighter than the rest of the rest of the church which was pretty dimly lit.
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| Map of the church |
As you walk along the sides of the cathedral they have a lot of different altars for different saints and important people in the churches history. I ended up staying for an afternoon mass which was pretty interesting to see. It's no different than church in the US, except it's in Spanish. It's my second mass I've been two since I've been here and I'm starting to catch on to the Spanish way of saying things. My favorite part is when we shake each others hands and say La Paz, instead of peace be with you.. it's the same thing. Also it was interesting because before the mass they roped off part of the church that leads off to a room. I just figured out what it's for.. it's the thing where they put the left over communion bread. I'm assuming they roped it off so tourist don't bump into the priest who is taking the bread there.
Anways it was a nice little mass. I felt weird taking pictures in a church, but I'm only here for 4 months and you never know if your going to make it back. So here's some of the pics.
<3 Leslie
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| Names of past Bishops in Santiago |
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| Ceiling part of it! it was too pretty! |
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| San Jose |
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| Part of the altar. |
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| Santa Teresa de los Andes (?) |
Some of them are kind of blurry so apologies!
I went there because I wanted to check out the Iglesia Catedral de Santiago. It's huge! and one of the pretties Cathedrals I have ever seen! I had a hard time fitting the whole thing in a picture. I'll definitely go back to explore the square more, and take some more pictures. This place is cool though, and it was surprisingly cool inside (considering it was pretty hot outside). When you walk in off to the right is smaller room with an altar in it. I'm not really sure what kinds of masses are done in there but it was a lot brighter than the rest of the rest of the church which was pretty dimly lit.
Some of them are kind of blurry so apologies!
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