The Iglesia San Agustín has one of Lima's two great churrigueresque facades — an 18th-century carved-stone wonder of cherubs, saints, columns, and floral patterns crammed into every available surface. The interior is smaller and quieter than its baroque rivals but contains a famously macabre 17th-century carved-wood Death of San Agustín, also known as La Muerte, attributed to the sculptor Baltasar Gavilán.
The legend is that Gavilán carved the skeleton so realistically that, on seeing his own creation by candlelight, he died of shock. The figure is housed in a side chapel and is paraded through the streets on the saint's feast day. Open most mornings.