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Ninety seconds on Centro de Visitantes Inmaculada Concepción
The foundation that restores the island's wooden churches works from this building, and carpenters train in a school here. Come before you drive south to see the churches themselves.
Start with the displays that take apart the joints holding the churches together without nails, then the cutaway models that show many of them in section. The exhibition fills the convent's own church, which became the churches museum in 2009.
None of the sixteen UNESCO-listed churches is in Ancud. Nearly all of them lie around Castro, Dalcahue, Chonchi and the island of Quinchao.
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