# Basilica and Convent of Santo Domingo

Lima, Peru

A Dominican church and convent founded in the 1530s, where the University of San Marcos was born in 1551. Its Rococo bell tower rises in pink and white above cloisters of Sevillian tile, and it guards the relics of three Peruvian saints.

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Coordinates: -12.044, -77.0319

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