Shouting Chiquia-Leon
Learn about the culture and religious architecture of León, on your journey the kindness of the Leonese will captivate you but will guide you.
Take a tour of the León Cathedral and other churches and chapels, you can visit specialized museums and natural tourist attractions such as the Cerro Negro volcano where a religious pilgrimage takes place on August 14, the date on which the Gritería Chiquita is held which brings together more than 100,000 people.
Address
To get to the urban area of León -where the main religious resources are located- from Managua you must take a bus or minibus at the Israel Lewites market heading to León. Or in front of the Casimiro Sotelo Montenegro National University, where interlocal buses frequently leave.
Circuit attractions
Leon Cathedral
Built between 1747 and 1820, it is one of the most important architectural buildings erected during the colonial era in the American continent. Currently Cultural Heritage of Humanity, where the poet Rubén Darío received his baptismal water and where his mortal remains are also found.
leon Cathedral
La Recolección Church
The first stone of this church was laid on December 05, 1786 by Bishop Juan Félix de Villegas. Next to the church, what is now the La Recolección school was built. It is a baroque monument par excellence. Its façade is considered one of the most important in the city of León.
La Recolección Church
El Calvario Church
No information is known about the foundation of the temple, but its construction date dates from the first half of the XNUMXth century. Within the iconography of its facade are the prayer of Jesus in the garden, the flagellation and the crucifixion. It is attractive for its style and colors.
El Calvario Church
La Merced Church
The old church was built in 1762, later it was demolished to build the current church in its same place during the XNUMXth century. Its interior was modernized at the beginning of this century. It is predominantly baroque. It can be visited every day of the week.
La Merced Church
Canyons of San Sebastián
They are located half a block after the ruins of San Sebastián, in this recreation space there are four cannons.
san francisco Church
The original temple dates from 1639, it is a church with a symmetrical rectangular plan in its central body and a square plan in its presbytery. It also has a sacristy in its extreme northwest. It can be visited every day, the first Monday of Easter is when San Benito de Palermo is celebrated.
san francisco Church
Church of San Juan Bautista de Sutiaba
Built between 1706 and 1718, replacing the original Hermitage of San Pedro, it faces the central square of the indigenous district of Sutiaba. Almost in its great majority it is decorated and built in wood, for this reason it earns the name of the Wooden Cathedral.
Church of San Juan Bautista de Sutiaba
Sites of Interest
- Rubén Darío Archive Museum
- Art Centers of the Ortiz Gurdian Foundation
- Joaquín de Arrechavala Museum of Myths and Legends
- Poets Park
- José de la Cruz Mena Theater
- Tridentino San Ramón School
- Chapel The Assumption
- Sutiaba Adiact Museum
- Cerro Negro volcano
- Poneloya Spa
- Las Peñitas Spa
- Juan Venado Island
- Black shell hatchery
