San Miguel de Allende - La Concepción ( Centro Cultural Ignacio Ramírez)

By following Calle Canal westwards, past the Casa de Canal with its marvellously carved door, we come to the church and convent of La Concepción (Las Monjas). Building started on these in the mid-18th c. but was not completed until the end of the last century. Of note is the church's splendid twelve-sided cupola completed in 1891 and also the work of the architect Ceferino Gutiérrez. Inside the church are pictures attributed to the artists Miguel Cabrera and Juan Rodríguez Juárez. The convent possesses a beautiful inner courtyard lined with old trees and two-storeyed arcades. It now houses the Centro Cultural Ignacio Ramírez. Diagonally opposite stands the Teatro Angela Peralta. It was founded as an opera house and enjoyed its heyday in 1873, when the "Mexican Nightingale", Angela Peralta, appeared here.

In Calle Hernandez Macías, which runs south alongside the convent, are the former prison building and the headquarters of the Inquisition (Cuadrante 18) standing opposite one another.