Lima is known as the “City of Kings,” a moniker bestowed by conqueror Francisco Pizarro. The central zone still has clear traces of the Colonial era, thus history is alive and well in its streets.
This activity is appropriate for people of all ages and can be done alone to meet new people, as a couple or with friends to share emotions, or as a family to have a memorable journey.
Lima Hotel Transfer
0900 AM
You will be picked up of your hotel by our local guide and then we will begin our walk to the city of Lima in whose journey will visit the most outstanding attractiveness in our capital. Our walk begins with a panoramic view to the Huaca Puccllana, great archaeological complex had built more than for 1500 years. Then we go to the Historical Center of Lima crossing the Walk of the Republic. In this place we will travel the famous Square on foot San Martin and then the historical bigger Square, place in the one which the Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro founds the city of Lima the year 1535, with the name of the Reyes’ City. In this area we will be witness of the architecture of that time of viceregal peak, we will appreciate beautiful balconies and mansions of colonial style. Here also we will be able to appreciate Government’s Palacio, the Municipality of Lima, The Cathedral and the Palacio Arzobispal. Later we will visit San Francisco’s Convent, a great architectural work built in the XVII century. During our visit we will appreciate the cloisters and their impressive library. Our visit in this place culminated with a journey to the underground galleries or catacombs, main cemetery of the colonial time that even today in day it shows a Gregorian atmosphere. We will conclude our walk in the city of Lima visiting their modern side, crossing the Olive grove of San Isidro, the residential area of Miraflores and the beautiful commercial center of Larco Sea, which offers a beautiful view of the Ocean Pacifico and he/she offers in their interior a group of memory stores, in which fabrics of very good quality can be acquired elaborated with vicuña fiber and German nickel. End of the service.
