Ayacucho
The retablos (ornamental religious dioramas) from Edwin Pizarro’s workshop in Barrio Belén are highly recommended. He’s renowned locally as one of the best artisans in the business and will personalize his lovingly made creations by adding figures appropriate to the customer.
The workshop is a tough 15-minute walk above central Ayacucho (opposite Templo de Belén) and can be hard to find: a taxi’s not a bad idea.
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This spectacular 17th-century cathedral on the Plaza de Armas has a religious-art museum inside. The moody facade doesn’t quite prepare you for the…
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Ayacucho’s most haunting museum, remembers the impact the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) had on Peru in the city that was most deeply affected by the…
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Displays popular art covering the ayacucheño (natives of Ayacucho) spectrum – silverwork, rug- and tapestry-weaving, stone and woodcarvings, ceramics …
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Sprawling for several kilometers along a cactus-forested roadside are the extensive ruins of Wari, the capital of the eponymous empire, which predated the…
Casa Museo Joaquín López Antay
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This captivating little museum is really part art gallery and part an explanation of the process of retablo making. Retablos, ornamental, originally…
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Officially a restaurant, this surreal Aladdin's Cave is more a museum of curios than anything else, for the owner is primarily a collector of magical…
Iglesia de San Francisco de Asis
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Visually striking stone church containing retablos (ornamental religious dioramas) and an attractive adjoining convent dating to the 17th century. Located…
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One of the prettiest plazas in the Central Andes, flanked by many gorgeous mansions, including the Prefectura. Ask at the tourist office for details on…
1. Museo Andrés Avelino Cáceres
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This museum in the Casona Vivanco, a gorgeous 16th-century mansion, houses maps and military paraphernalia from the period of its namesake, a local man…
2. Templo y Monasterio de Santa Teresa
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Gorgeous church and monastery dating from 1683 with an altar studded in seashells.
3. Iglesia de San Juan de Dios
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One of Ayacucho's oldest churches, dating from the mid-16th century.
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This is the oldest city church, dating from shortly after Ayacucho's founding in 1540.
5. Templo y Monasterio de Santa Clara
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Attracts thousands of pilgrims annually for a glimpse of the image of Jesus of Nazareth supposedly inside on one of the altars.
6. Iglesia de San Francisco de Asis
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Visually striking stone church containing retablos (ornamental religious dioramas) and an attractive adjoining convent dating to the 17th century. Located…
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A square of shops and restaurants tucked back from the pedestrian street, with a better quality of establishments than the similar Centro Turístico…