The Pueblo de los Dominicos is a crafts market in Santiago, Chile, and the church there is San Vicente Ferrer. In 1544 the governor of Chile gave this land to the female conquistador Ines de Suarez. Then this land was passed on to several different families, along with the Dominican mission and monastery. The last family to own this land was the Cranisbro family, who had the church built in 1847 with two steeples in honor of two deceased children. The church is now a national monument.
The weathervanes atop each steeple are flat, two dimensional human figures. One figure holds a chalice and the other figure holds a horn. There are no cardinal points to show wind direction.
This land is now a national heritage site, and in the late 1970s and early 1980s the market of the Pueblo de los Dominicos was created here. It has become popular because it is not just a market, but also the workshops show the local people creating their art here - leather work, jewelry, woodworking, knitting, clothing, paintings, and ceramics. There are about 200 stores and stalls here selling arts, crafts, pets, flowers, plants, clothing, textiles, and foods.
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| A map of the Pueblo de los Dominicos |
For the truly curious:
Website for Iglesia San Vicente Ferrer:
http://iglesiadesantiago.cl/arzobispado/parroquias/las-condes/san-vicente-ferrer/2016-12-22/130917.html
and also this website http://www.sanvicenteferrer.cl/
Click here to see over 400 other weathervanes featured on "Weathervane Wednesday":
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/search/label/Weathervane%20Wednesday
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Two Weathervanes on One Church - Weathervane Wednesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 15, 2020, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/04/two-weathervanes-on-one-church.html: accessed [access date]).
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