The chapel stained with blood

What reminds this old Spanish settlement lonely chapel? These walls evoke a meeting, or collision, between the old and new worlds in a remote colonial settlement. Now become prime tourist destination, The place keeps a story of survival that the writer and VaP collaborator Gerardo Bartolomé will tell us next weekend in his blog “From Patagonia”.

byGerardo Bartolomé

19 June, 2011

byGerardo Bartolomé

Published June 19, 2011

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