Plaza de San Diego

The Plaza de San Diego features a vibrant, sun-drenched facade of ochre and burnt orange surrounding a central fountain shaded by thick almond trees. This square sits before the former Convent of Saint Diego, built in the early seventeenth century to house Franciscan monks. When the Spanish Crown expelled the religious orders in the nineteenth century, the convent became a women's prison. Inmates spent their days here until the building transitioned into the School of Fine Arts, where Gabriel Garcia Marquez once studied painting.