Why pilgrims come
Enter a place shaped by prayer, community, and pilgrimage
A vast Franciscan church and convent complex with cloisters, a historic library, a religious-art museum, Passion paintings and underground colonial burial spaces popularly known as the catacombs.
San Francisco is more than a catacomb attraction: approach it as a living Franciscan complex whose church, cloisters, art and burial spaces hold together prayer, mortality and the history of evangelization in Lima.
What to notice
Look closely at the place and its story
Franciscan basilica and convent
Begin with the living church and the architecture of Franciscan prayer before the museum circuit.
Passion paintings
The official tourism source highlights twelve paintings associated with the Rubens school in the De Profundis room.
Colonial burial spaces
Descend respectfully into the historic underground burials commonly called Lima’s catacombs.
How to read this page
Sources, tradition, and what is verified
No verification date is listed, so current visitor details should be confirmed directly.
This page records the site’s tradition as “Catholic.” That wording describes the nature of the claim and keeps devotional tradition distinct from independently verified history.
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