The convent is a building of great proportions started in 1578, with four galleries and a central garden of Sevillian style finished in 1603. It is located on the fence of Quiminza, sacred place and s.. Read more »eat of the chiefdom of the Government of the Zaques, governors of the Muisca people. Here, the first eucharisty was held of the Day of Hispanic Foundation of the city in 1539. The church and Convent of St. Augustine is a renaissance building that was initially a convent and church, then a school, a university, a penitentiary and finally the seat of the Cultural center of the Bank of the Republic, the seat of the postgraduate in history of the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia and the Regional archive of Boyacá.