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LIMA TRADICIONAL
LIMA TRADICIONAL

Location: In the coast center of the country.
Extension: 33,820kms²
Capital: Lima
Altitude: 133msnm
Temperature: 19°C (máx.25, mín.13)
Humidity: June to September

NACIONAL MUSEUM
NACIONAL MUSEUM
GOLD MUSEUM
GOLD MUSEUM
ANTROPOLOGIA
ANTROPOLOGIA
 
 
 


TRADITIONAL LIMA
3 Days / 2 Nights

DAY 01.- Reception in the airport. Transfer to the hotel. Lodging.

DAY 02.- Breakfast in the Hotel. Tour to Colonial and Modern Lima. Lodging.

DAY 03.-
Breakfast in the Hotel. At the selected hour transfer from the hotel to the airport for your departure flight.
* Daily Departures


COLONIAL AND MODERN LIMA
Half day tour (Approx. 3 hours)

Tour to the most important places in Modern and Colonial Lima : The Monumental Center, the colonial architecture with its main attractions : The Main Square, Archbishopric Palace, Government’s Palace, City Hall, “Desamparados” train station and also old viceregal mansions and Moresque style balconies. You will visit the monumental complex of San Francisco, with its convents, cloister and dungeons. The visit continues by the residential districts of San Isidro and Miraflores.
* Daily Departures


NATIONAL MUSEUM
Half day tour (Approx. 3 hours)

A brief visit to the famous museum that will introduce you the History of Pre-hispanic Peru. Several presentations will lead you through centuries of Peruvian History before the arrival of the Spaniards. Time permitting, you will experience the recreation of hunters and harvesters in the central region of Peru, a tomb in Nazca and an aerial view of the Nazca lines. There is also a model of Macchu Picchu and a mock-up of “The Lord of Sipan”. The tour ends with a brief description of the foundation of the Inca empire and its capital Cuzco.
* Daily Departures except Mondays


GOLD MUSEUM
Half day tour (Approx. 3 hours)

A visit to the world famous Gold Museum that will introduce you to a rich collection of Gold artifacts produced by goldsmiths of the Chavin, Mochica, Chimu and Nazca cultures as well as the priceless collection of weapons , collected by Miguel Mujica Gallo.
* Daily Departures


PACHACAMAC RUINS
Half day tour (Approx. 3 hours)
Visit to the citadel of Pachacamac, sacred place of pilgrimage and ceremonies from the beginning of the Christian era, 31 kilometers to the south of Lima. This place shows a complex of pyramidal constructions of temples and precincts of ancient pre-Columbian cultures and the Inca’s empire. Outstanding are the Temples of Pachacamac, the Sun and the one of the Chosen Women, the Sun Virgins. There is also a museum which keeps the idol of the God Pachacamac, creator of the world.
* Daily Departures

ANTROPOLOGICAL - ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL MUSEUM
Half day tour (Approx. 3 hours)

It has a very wide collection of all the phases of the Peruvian culture starting from the first settlers: Nomad hunters and collectors, passing through many cultures such as Chavin, Nazca, Paracas, Mochica, Wari, Inca, etc. and continuing with the Spanish contact and ending with the beginning of the republic.
* Daily Departures except Mondays


ENRIQUE POLI MUSEUM
Half day tour (Approx. 3 hours)

This is a private collection of Mr. Enrique Poli, where we will appreciate samples of the pre-Hispanic cultures, carvings and gold work. He also has a pre-Inca ceramic exposition and another of pre-Inca metallurgy.
* Previous appointment


LARCO HERRERA MUSEUM
Half day tour (Approx. 3 hours)
This one of the biggest private collections of the pre-Columbian Peruvian art which grasps approximately 45,000 pieces of gold, silver, ceramics, textiles, stones, etc. with unique pieces of each material. This museum is famous for its erotic ceramic collections.
* Daily Departures


AMANO MUSEUM
Impressive collections of textils proceeding from Chancay where we will appreciate painted cotton weavings, fines cotton looms of Chancay. Archaeological zone to the north of Lima, carpets weaved of alpaca and a technicals chains developed by the ancient peruvians weavers which grasp from simple to brocades weavings.
* Previous appointment


H/D PALOMINO ISLAND

Visiting these beautiful islands where we will watch sea lions and many species of sea birds in their natural habitat.
* Previous appointment



 
 
Brief historical review
» The city of Lima, well-known also like City of the Kings, was founded by Francisco Pizarro the 18 of January of 1535 on the right margin of the Rímac river due to the magnificent strategic and geographic conditions of this valley. Lima, whose name comes from the indigenous word Rímac, that translated the Spanish means talkative, began to grow quickly between the testimonies of the millenarian cultures that were developed in all this zone.
One became centuries XVI and XVII in the most important and powerful metropolis of Spanish America, was center of the commercial and cultural activities of the virreinato until the century XVIII that is created the Virreinato of the Silver that absorbed, the famous mines of Potosí. In 1821 the independente by Don Jose of San Martín is proclaimed, beginning the republican stage. Nowadays, Lima is a modern city that offers a great variety of attractive, which together with his rich past, it presents/displays a harmonious synthesis of all this historical wealth in his museums, traditional districts, restaurants, galleries of craftsmen and nocturnal life.
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