Day 2:
City Tour and Rafael Larco Herrera Museum
Pick up from the hotel at 9:00 a.m. YourTour begins in the Plaza de Armas, declared by UNESCO as a world heritage, along the Plaza are the Famous Portals such as the Portal de Escribanos y Botoneros that are now small business establishments. In the center of the Plaza there is a Fountain that dates back to 1560. The Cathedral is also located in the Main Square or Plaza de Armas as well as the Archbishop's Palace, and then visit the Basilica of San Francisco that is famous for the greater Sample of Colonial Religious Art in America. The Choral Room and the Library of the Monks, the Sacristy, with its Collection of Canvases by Zurbarán and Rivera are appreciated. The Great Courtyard of the Main Cloister, Finely Decorated with Sevillian Tiles from the 16th century, its Beautiful Moorish Arches and the Underground Crypts, Known as the Catacombs, where you will feel the Presence of the Colonial Past. The Tour also includes a visit to Colonial Lima. In its Historic Center, the Architecture and Urban Trace of that Period stands out, in Old streets with Colonial Mansions with Moorish-style Balconies. Our tour includes the Paseo de la República, Plaza San Martín and the Plaza Mayor, with its Distinctive Buildings: Government Palace, the Archbishop's Palace, the Cathedral Basilica and the Municipal Palace. And the Modern Lima with the Districts of Miraflores, and San Isidro, will go to the Gold Museum that will allow you to Appreciate a Dazzling collection of Gold Pieces of diverse Pre-Columbian Cultures, some with more than 1,000 years of Antiquity. Incalculable Goldsmith Objects and Jewels are exhibited, worked in Gold, Silver and Precious Stones, highlighting the Ornaments and Objects that in their Age of Splendor were used by the Various Cultures such as: Moche, Lambayeque, Sican, Chimú and the Incas, Children of the Sun God and Monarchs of the Vast Inca Empire. The Use of the Objects Made in their Majority of a Gold and Copper Alloy (Tumbaga) was of two Types Ritual and Funeral, that is why the Spanish Conquerors desecrated the Tombs of the Principal Rulers of the Existing Cultures in that Territories. The Gold Museum of Peru also exhibits a Valuable Collection of Ancient and Modern Weapons that were used from the Conquest to the Last War Confrontations. Finally, you will visit the Bohemian Neighborhood of Barranco Known and Famous for its Writers, Painters and Musicians and it is precisely the Landscape that allows and inspires the Artistic and Poetic Development.