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Parroquia Mayor de Santa Cruz

TIME : 2016/2/19 1:39:11

The Parroquia Mayor de Santa Cruz, four blocks north of the main plaza, was once the town’s principal mosque and still has traces of Islamic features and some Arabic inscriptions. Beyond a roofless atrium is an interior crammed with sacred paraphernalia and baroque silverwork. A sarcophagus in front of the altar dates from the early Christian period, with a chiseled likeness of Daniel flanked by a pair of lions.