San Luis Museum & Cultural Center

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This handsome museum and gallery chronicles Hispanic culture in southern Colorado, in a modern building that blends sustainable concepts with traditional regional architecture. Exhibits on the Penitente Brotherhood are especially intriguing for their insight into this formerly secretive local sect of Catholicism.


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