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San Sebastián Church

It is a Baroque church and was built between 1750 and 1800 by the order of Mercy.

The Honduran art from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, is a hybrid art represented in architecture, sculpture, painting and silverware by teachers who copied the European but imposed local importance.

At the entrance of the temple on the right wing is the font defined by a carved wooden fence with a Latin cross in the center. The Sagrada Familia, the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Our Lady of Byzantine character: in this church three paintings are exhibited. The temple walls are decorated with plant motifs.

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Church of Santa Lucia

The simple, humble and natural, it is distinguished by its flat roof mud and a representative of obedience to God. He dresses in color between December and January of each year as the setting for the Festival Guancasco next to San Sebastián.

This celebration between "villains" and "mejicapas" mix a number of indigenous traditions of Lenca origin and Catholic customs inherited in colonial times.

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