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Plaza Mayor and Plaza San Martin

A long pedestrian street crowded with shoppers, vendors and sightseers connects Lima's two main plazas to each other. The heart of the old town is centred on the striking Plaza Mayor, or Plaza de Armas, gracefully colonial with its bronze fountain and old street lamps....  see full details



Museo de la Nación (National Museum)

The superb anthropological and archaeological National Museum contains excellent exhibits tracing the history of Peru’s ancient civilisations and provides an outstanding overview of the archaeological richness of the country. It is the city’s largest and the country’s most important museum and the chronological layout guides...  see full details



Museo de Oro del Peru (Gold Museum)

Housed in a fortress-like building are the safe-rooms crammed with treasures from the Inca civilisation and their predecessors. The massive collection of gleaming gold, ceremonial objects and jewellery compete for attention, and the famous golden Tumi, the symbol of Peru, has been exhibited around...  see full details



Museo Rafael Larco Herrera

The 18th century colonial-style museum houses the largest and most impressive ceramic collection in the world, with about 55,000 pre-Colombian clay pots on display. The collection concentrates on the refined ceramics of the Moche Dynasty, the people who lived along the northern coast of...  see full details



Church of San Francisco

The most spectacular of Lima's colonial churches, San Francisco is a striking white and yellow building with twin towers and a stone façade. It was one of the few buildings to survive the devastation of the 1746 earthquake and is famous for its underground...  see full details


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