City Tour Monseñor Romero in San Salvador
San Salvador, El Salvador
Trip Type: City Tours
Duration: 5 hours
This city tour of Monsignor Romero is an excellent opportunity to discover the architectural beauty and history of El Salvador from an angle that allows you to understand the cultural roots on a journey through time, through the decade of the 70 's and 80's. These years are during which the story of Oscar Arnulfo Romero comes to life, which culminated with his assassination on March 24, 1980. A year later, a civil war began, lasting 12 years. Come with us and live the story.
You will discover his legacy visiting Monsignor Romero Center UCA, Martyrs Museum, Metropolitan Cathedral (where his remains are located). See the Museum of the Word and Image, Historic Center Monsignor Romero and the chapel where he was killed. Learn all this while you visit the main squares, buildings, streets and monuments of the capital.
You will discover his legacy visiting Monsignor Romero Center UCA, Martyrs Museum, Metropolitan Cathedral (where his remains are located). See the Museum of the Word and Image, Historic Center Monsignor Romero and the chapel where he was killed. Learn all this while you visit the main squares, buildings, streets and monuments of the capital.
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This city tour of Monsignor Romero is an excellent opportunity to discover the architectural beauty and history of El Salvador from an angle that allows you to understand the cultural roots on a journey through time, through the decade of the 70 's and 80's. These years are during which the story of Oscar Arnulfo Romero comes to life, which culminated with his assassination on March 24, 1980. A year later, a civil war began, lasting 12 years. Come with us and live the story.
You will discover his legacy visiting Monsignor Romero Center UCA, Martyrs Museum, Metropolitan Cathedral (where his remains are located). See the Museum of the Word and Image, Historic Center Monsignor Romero and the chapel where he was killed. Learn all this while you visit the main squares, buildings, streets and monuments of the capital. One of the most representative figures in the recent history of El Salvador is the archbishop of San Salvador. Amid an atmosphere of injustice, repression and uncertainty, he was a defender of human rights. This injustices accuser, accused of Marxist revolutionary, was eventually assassinated by a right-wing death squad. You will know his history, heritage and connection to the most humble and vulnerable part of the Salvadoran people.
We begin in the Monsignor Romero Center and Museum of Martyrs of the Universidad Centro Americana UCA, where you can find the Board of Martyrs, Chapel and the Rose Garden. After discovering the history, we'll travel through of the main avenues and monuments of the San Salvador Cathedral, where the remains of Monsignor Romero were buried in a crypt, representing the bishop “sleeping the sleep of the just."
Later, we stop for lunch. Then we will go to the Museum of the Word and Image, to see the exhibition of personal photographs of Monsignor Romero. And finally, we continue to Monsignor Romero Historical Center, in the Divine Providence Hospital, touring the house in which Bishop lived and the Chapel where the murder occurred on March 24, 1980.
You will discover his legacy visiting Monsignor Romero Center UCA, Martyrs Museum, Metropolitan Cathedral (where his remains are located). See the Museum of the Word and Image, Historic Center Monsignor Romero and the chapel where he was killed. Learn all this while you visit the main squares, buildings, streets and monuments of the capital. One of the most representative figures in the recent history of El Salvador is the archbishop of San Salvador. Amid an atmosphere of injustice, repression and uncertainty, he was a defender of human rights. This injustices accuser, accused of Marxist revolutionary, was eventually assassinated by a right-wing death squad. You will know his history, heritage and connection to the most humble and vulnerable part of the Salvadoran people.
We begin in the Monsignor Romero Center and Museum of Martyrs of the Universidad Centro Americana UCA, where you can find the Board of Martyrs, Chapel and the Rose Garden. After discovering the history, we'll travel through of the main avenues and monuments of the San Salvador Cathedral, where the remains of Monsignor Romero were buried in a crypt, representing the bishop “sleeping the sleep of the just."
Later, we stop for lunch. Then we will go to the Museum of the Word and Image, to see the exhibition of personal photographs of Monsignor Romero. And finally, we continue to Monsignor Romero Historical Center, in the Divine Providence Hospital, touring the house in which Bishop lived and the Chapel where the murder occurred on March 24, 1980.
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