Templo y Arco de Santa Catalina

In 1609, four nuns of the Convent of the Conception obtained permission to establish the Santa Catalina Convent, the second in the city, opened on September 15th, 1647. By the end of the century the population of nuns had grown so much that it took an additional land to serve as a garden, which gained on the opposite side of the street. To maintain the conditions of the cloister was built the arch by which the nuns could transit without visual contact with the outside. This was completed in 1693 and rebuilt in the nineteenth century.