Hotel Colonial

Trujillo


This tastefully renovated, rose-colored colonial mansion has a great location just a block from the Plaza de Armas. It's a top contender in both the midrange and budget categories. It no longer offers dorms, but has plenty of good-value private rooms with solar hot water spread out over three levels.

Chatty and helpful staff, a tour desk, popular cafe, gorgeous courtyards, open spaces and a garden come together to keep attracting travelers. Some of the cozy rooms have balconies and great views of Iglesia de San Francisco opposite.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Trujillo attractions

1. Iglesia de San Francisco

0.03 MILES

This baroque central church was constructed in the late 16th century and is notable for its multicolored retable.

2. Casa Ganoza Chopitea

0.04 MILES

Northeast of the cathedral, this c 1735 mansion, also known as Casa de los Léones, is considered to be the best-preserved mansion of the colonial period…

4. Palacio Iturregui

0.1 MILES

This imposing gray early 19th-century mansion is impossible to ignore. Built in neoclassical style, it has beautiful window gratings, 36 slender interior…

5. Casa de la Emancipación

0.11 MILES

Now the Banco BBVA Continental, this building features a mishmash of colonial and Republican styles and is best known as the site where Trujillo’s…

6. Basilica Menor Catedral

0.11 MILES

Known simply as ‘La Catedral,’ this bright, canary-yellow church fronting the plaza was begun in 1647, destroyed in 1759, and rebuilt soon afterward. The…

7. Iglesia de la Merced

0.12 MILES

Worth a flyby is the 17th-century Iglesia de la Merced, which has a striking organ and cupola. Uniquely, an altar here is painted on the wall, an…

8. Iglesia de Santa Ana

0.19 MILES

Iglesia de Santa Ana is made of adobe and was one of the first iglesia for indigenous worshippers within a Spanish colonial city.