ITINERARY
- Pick up from hotel (Lima centro, San Isidro & Miraflores).
- City Tour Lima
We visit the historical
center of Lima, including "paseo de la republica", "Plaza San Martín",
the Main Square and the surroundings monuments: "The goberment palace,
the Cathedral, the Archbishop`s Palace; City Hall, the Desamparados train station,
and the Moorish-style houses and balconies along Lima`s old streets.
In the catedral, the tour guide will show you the sacristy, the side chapels,
the impressive Choir seating, and the tomb of Lima`s founder, Francisco Pizarro.
The Next stop is San Francisco convent, with the best exhibition of Colonial art in Latinoamerica.
The tour includes the Choir hall, the Monk`s library and the sacristy,
featuring collection of Zurbaran and Rivera oil paintings.
After visiting the main yard of the cloister to see its fine XVI century seville styles
and Moorish Arches, the tour will proceed to the underground cripts
known as the catacombs.
After we will visit the traditional neighborhood near the San
Isidro Golf Club, the olive Grove park and the modern Larco Mar
shopping and the entertaiment complex including the Park of Love
where we will finish with a spectacular sight of the Pacific Ocean.
- Time for Lunch.
- Visit to Gold Museum.
In this museum we appreciate an spectacular collection of Peruvian Ancient Gold
and the Arms of the World Collection.
Ancient peruvians were master metal workers. the "cire perdue" or lots wx process,
known across the Orient and lost in the west until the renaissance, was the most frecuent technique
used by mater ancients Peruvian gold and silversmiths.
On our tour of Peru`s Gold museum, visitors will appreciate a dazzling
collection of gold artefacts from various pre-colombian civilizations,
some more than 3000 years old.
Metal pieces and jewerly of incalculable value in gold, silver and precious
stones used by the incas - the children of the Sun god and monarch of the vast
Inca Empire - are shown in this collection.
Five hundred years ago, the gold of Perú atracted many European adventurers who
conquered the inca and founded the vicec-Royalty of Perú under the spanish Crown.
Perú`s Gold Museum also host a valuable collection of old and modern weapons that
ranks among the best in the world.
The halls in this section show the Arms of the World Collection of armour, uniforms and
various ancient war tools and weapons from various ages in the world.
Some of them are dated as long ago as 1300 B.C.
- Transfer to the Hotel (Lima centro, San Isidro & Miraflores).
BOOKINGS
To reserve this tour, please write us to:
reservas@rundomundo.com or call us sending the next information:
- Reservation: City Tour Lima - Gold Museum + City Tour Private Service.
- Passenger names.
- Number of passengers.
- Date you prefer the tour.
- Name, telephone and address from the hotel where the passengers are hosted.