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Lima's Baroque Churches
Though Lima is today a noisy, modern metropolis of almost nine million people, its coloni-
al heart - an area of narrow streets on the southern banks of the Río Rímac - contains a
veritable treasure of colonial churches. Among the finest: the Iglesia de Santo Domingo (
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, which contains the skull of Santa Rosa; the Monasterio de San Francisco (
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, home to underground catacombs; and the astonishing Iglesia de la Merced (
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, which boasts a hyperornate facade and enough towering baroque altars to turn
anyone into a believer.
Iglesia de la Merced
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