El patronazgo del General Francisco de Echeveste

Abstract

A large part of the Basque artistic heritage was set up thanks to the money sent from America by the Basques who had gone to that continent. Generosity and Christian spirit made Francisco de Echeveste, a soldier and merchant who had settled in Mexico, to pay for different building works. Among such works are the construction of the Colegio de las Vizcaínas de Mexico (College of Bizkaian women in Mexico), the tower of the church of San Salvador de Usurbil and the hermitage of San Francisco de Asís in Aginaga.