Querétaro - Santa Rosa de Viterbo

After Casa de los Perros on Calle Allende Sur 16 turn the next corner into Avenida General de Arteaga and follow this to the right to the Plaza Ignacio Mariano de Las Casas to reach the church of Santa Rosa de Viterbo, one of the most interesting churches in the town. Another of Ignacio Mariano de Las Casas' works, it was completed in 1752, but was later altered by Tresguerras. The two flying buttresses in the form of heavy volutes are striking. The clock is reputed to be the first repeating striking clock in America.

Interior

The retablos inside the church are richly decorated in the Churrigueresque style. The church also contains valuable paintings in the Colonial period. As in many churches belonging to convents there is a fine wrought-iron choir screen, behind which the nuns could take part in the Mass. Of note are the superbly carved confessional, the high Baroque organ and in the sacristy the life-sized statues of the twelve Apostles at the Last Supper; behind these is a painting by Tresguerras, covering the whole wall, which depicts St Rosa surrounded by her nuns.