La Catedral featured a football pitch, giant doll house, bar, jacuzzi and waterfall.

A section of the wall had been mortared with weak concrete that could be easily kicked open, allowing Escobar to walk out.

The location's steep topography also prevented the military or rival cartels from attacking La Catedral easily.

In 2007, a group of Benedictine monks from the Benedictina Fraternidad Monastica Santa Gertrudis arrived at the site and transformed it.

They built a chapel, a library, a cafeteria, a guest-house for religious pilgrimages, workshops and a memorial to victims of the cartel in the prison.