The Iglesia de San Lazaro is a beautiful (if diminutive) cream-coloured church dating from 1700. Just as interesting is the nearby cloistered hospital constructed a century later by virtuous Franciscan monk Padre Valencia to nurse leprosy victims.
Iglesia de San Lazaro
Camagüey
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