Sunday is the day to post photos of churches. Today's Sunday Church Photo is from the Convento de Santo Ecce Homo, just outside Villa De Leyva, Colombia. I visited there in November 2017.
The monastery dates back to 1620, the same year that the Pilgrims stepped foot on Plymouth Rock. This is the monastery chapel. It's a little more recent than that, but, I believe, only a little more recent. It is a beautiful combination of ornate and simple.
The monastery grounds are one of the major historical sites in Colombia. It is located on the road somewhere between the Vineyard Ain Karim and the field of giant stone phalluses (phalli?) that is politely referred to as the "Observatorio Astronómico Muisca," an "astronomical observatory."
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