First stop: the cathedral

The first stop of the morning was the cathedral. We headed there via the metro then walked all around the outside of it before going to check it out on the inside. Inside was enormous, as expected after seeing the impressively large facade. It was a pretty standard cathedral which according to Tomás was constructed over a period of more than 400 years.

The only thing really strange that we encountered was along the side of the cathedral in what looked to have been some sort of mini chapel or dedicatory altar. The man to whom the altar was dedicated was an old priest or bishop or something, and there was a glass case at the bottom of the altar with a robed, masked figure inside. At first it looked normal, but then I looked at the bottom of the sleeves and there were, in fact, old, dried-up, withered hands complete with rings and all. Turns out there was a real body there and thank goodness it had a mask because if the hands looked like they did I have no desire to know what the face looked like.