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This convent is in Getsemaní neighborhood, which long ago was an island separate from Cartagena de Indias by the Caño de San Anastasio. This island was owned by Doña Beatriz de Cogollos, who donated the grounds for building the convent.
It was founded in 1555 by Fray Pedro de la Iglesia, but in 1559 the french pirates directed by Martin Cote demolished the place and it was abandoned by the religious.
Then Fray Francisco de Molina would definitively found the convent in 1560. By 1570 the stopped advance of the construction due to the lack of alms, the monastery was then a hut and a wooden church.
It was the first seat of the inquisitors when they arrived to Cartagena de Indias in 1610. It has an ample and quiet patio evoking colonial times. Today it is seat of antique stores, handcraft stores, galleries and two private companies. |
