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Extract from the El Quinche Travel Guides: The village of
EL QUINCHE
, some 7km southeast of Guayllabamba, is famous for its outsized
church
, as large as the monasteries and cathedrals of colonial Quito. Grand as the building is, for pilgrims its most important feature is the wooden image of
El Virgen del Quinche
, carved at the end of the sixteenth century by artist and architect Diego de Robles. Ever since de Robles was saved from tumbling hundreds of feet into the Ro Oyacachi by a thorn snagging on his clothes, the Virgin has been believed responsible for countless other miracles, depicted by paintings inside the church. Pilgrims make thei...
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