Santa Lucia neighborhood.

This neighborhood was founded around the year 1594, with a hermitage built humbly next to the hospital for the poor. At first the hermitage housed two temples of Santa Lucía and San Diego.

In 1712 Bishop Álvarez de Toledo managed to get the hermitage ceded to him to give it to the Hospital of San Juan de Dios (de la Caridad), In 1785 it was affected by the flood that the City suffered, and in 1819 a new temple was built that It was destroyed at the end of the 19th century, thus giving rise to the current Temple of Santa Lucía built in 1882.

Santa Lucía arose from the need to have a dispensary and in 1669 there was already a small hospital there; For this reason, it is no coincidence that the hospital and two of its care centers are located in this area to date.

In the chapel of the temple is the Lord of the Choir, a sculpture that represents the evangelical passage "Ecce Hommo". It is called "Señor del Coro" because he presided in that part of the convent of the sisters of the incarnation of the verb, it was sculpted in the 17th century by a diocesan priest Juan de Figueroa, it is one of the last relics of that formative institution. The park of Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas corresponds to this jurisdiction, whose statue was donated by Bishop Francisco Orozco Jiménez at the beginning of the 20th century.

Originally, this neighborhood was an artisan center par excellence and a seat for builders. This neighborhood is dedicated to the elaboration of rockets and bulls. Now there is an artisan market in this neighborhood where you can find a wide variety of traditional sweets and candies from the city, some made by the people of this area.

The neighborhood party is celebrated on December 13, in honor of Saint Lucia, who is the advocate of those who suffer from sight.