Iglesia de Santo Domingo, Santiago

This Dominican church in central Santiago is among the city's finest colonial religious buildings, its stone facade in a late Baroque style completed in the early nineteenth century after earthquakes destroyed earlier structures. Two bell towers frame the pink-hued stone front, carved from local quarries. Inside, the nave holds altarpieces and colonial art, and the church remains an active parish. A few blocks from the Plaza de Armas, it is among the best-preserved colonial churches in the seismic capital.