Lima City Tour with Changing of the Guard Ceremony

The Plaza San Marín was built in 1921 as part of the celebrations of the Centennial of the Independence of Peru (1821), it bears that name in honor of the first liberator of Peru, Don José de San Martín, it has been the scene of several national festivities and is the second most important square in the Historical Center of Lima. Around it we will see different monuments and buildings such as the Gran Hotel Bolívar, the Colon Theater, Club Nacional, offices, apartments, Ex Cine Metro Goldwin Mayer (1939), old bars and restaurants. Then we will go through Jirón de la Unión street, this street was the most important street in the city for many years, characterized for being the most "aristocratic" and where the most famous inhabitants of the city met, formerly the best shops, restaurants, the first banks and insurance offices, newspapers, among others. We will pass by the building of the Banco de Reserva del Perú built in 1928 in a historicist style.

The San Francisco Monumental Complex is great evidence of colonial art in Peru, founded in the 16th century (1564). It was the largest convent in Lima, it covered 4 blocks, we will appreciate its main cloister adorned with mural painting, oil canvases and Sevillian tiles from the 1620s, it has a beautiful library with books and manuscripts dating from the 16th century in different languages, very popular for its "Catacombs", they are underground galleries that functioned as crypts (cemetery) for almost 300 years.

Our accredited guide will take you to the Plaza Mayor of Lima, to appreciate the Government Palace, Cathedral of Lima, Archbishop's Palace and Municipality of Lima. Likewise, we will see the Changing of the Guard Ceremony from the Plaza Mayor, this event takes place in the Main Patio of the Government Palace.

This stop does not include entrance to the Cathedral of Lima, the Archbishop's Palace and other buildings around the Plaza Mayor.

We will walk from the Plaza Mayor to the minibus, and we will return to Miraflores or to the respective hotels, on the way we will pass through the district of San Isidro, considered the residential and modern neighborhood of Lima, we will have a tour in the minibus through the "Parque el Olivar" , so called because it has more than 1500 olive trees and they are considered the oldest in the American continent, then we will have a panoramic view of the "Huaca Pucllana" Archaeological Center, an important ceremonial center almost 2 thousand years old and built entirely with bricks. (adobes) of mud.

Does not include entrance to the "Huaca Pucllana".