San Martin

The cathedral is pretty.  It’s also still an active church and there were little confessional booths around, although given that everyone has a camera and recorder at the end of their arm these days, I can’t imagine anyone wanting to confess anything in that environment unless it was purely for shock factor, anticipating that it could become a Tik Tok video.
 
As might be expected, San Martin is buried in the cathedral, along with a number of other important folks.  There are memorial recognitions with regard to his participation in Peru and Uruguay’s quests for independence as well.  His crypt also had two guards in full military dress standing guard.  

 
There’s not a lot to say about the cathedral.  It’s a big, traditional style church that could be dropped into any European city and it would fit right in.  You can definitely tell it came from a time when comfort of the parishioners was not a consideration – there wasn’t a sign of a seat pad or kneeling cushion everywhere.  You go there, you get to do your penance on the hard benches.  It had a significant business wing, which was obviously modern and where the nuts and bolts of church business occurred, attached.