This tiny hamlet set amid arid hills, 7km beyond Ráquira, is noted for the Monasterio de La Candelaria, founded in 1597 by Augustine monks and completed about 1660. Monks show you around the parts open to the public: through the chapel (note the 16th-century painting of the Virgen de la Candelaria over the altar), a small museum, the library, and the courtyard flanked by the cloister with a collection of 17th-century canvases hanging on its walls.
Some of the artworks were allegedly painted by Gregorio Vásquez de Arce y Ceballos and the Figueroa brothers.
