Granada: Antiguo Convento San Francisco

The towering, sky-blue convent was first built by Franciscan monks in 1529 and was burned to the ground by pirate Henry Morgan 150 years later. Since then it has housed William Walker’s troops, U.S. Marines, a contingent of engineers surveying a possible canal route in the 1920s, and the National University.

Granada's Antiguo Convento San Francisco is an open-air collection of 30 towering alter-ego statues, collected a century ago from nearby Zapatera Island.  A rare look into the cosmology of Nicaragua’s pre-Columbian peoples. The museum has stunning photo-ops of Granada’s rooftops, the lake, and Mombacho.

Location: 2 blocks North and 1 bloc East of the main cathedral
Phone: 505-552-5535
Open: 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Mon. - Fri., 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. weekends
Prices: $2

Smaller version of the Exhibits
Mansion Museo de Granada
Location: 1.5 blocks West of Central Park.
Prices: $2