… and from the roofs of the hotel and Archbishop’s Palace. A combatant blew backward, convulsed, and collapsed onto the cargo bed. A decade after Spaniards conquered Quito, Pope Paul III created the Diocese of San Francisco de Quito in 1545. The city would have a dozen bishops before this two-level, colonnade building was built along La Plaza Grande in 1700. The Archbishop’s Palace was subsequently renovated in the mid-19th century and again in the 1970s.
