The Navy Lighthouse in Miraflores
Along the Miraflores boardwalk, there is a point where most visitors stop without planning to. The Faro de la Marina has stood in that same location since 1900, and over more than a century it has become one of the most recognizable elements of Lima’s coastal skyline. It is not tall or monumental compared to […]
Huaca Pucllana: Complete Guide
Miraflores is the most modern district in Lima and the one least associated in the collective imagination with pre-Hispanic Peru. That is why Huaca Pucllana creates, for those who arrive without prior knowledge, a contrast effect that few experiences in Lima can match: a 25-meter-tall adobe pyramid built more than 1,500 years ago surrounded by […]
Magic Water Circuit: Complete Guide
Lima has few attractions that work so well for all types of travelers at the same time. The Magic Water Circuit is one of them. It is not a museum or a historic site but a public park where thirteen electronically controlled ornamental fountains create a nighttime show of water, music, lights, and projections that […]
Love Park: Lima’s most romantic viewpoint
There is one exact point on the Malecón Cisneros in Miraflores where the cliff opens toward the Pacific with such a clear perspective that the horizon seems closer than at any other point on Lima’s coastline. That is where Love Park is. It is not large, it does not have complex facilities, and it costs […]
Miraflores boardwalk: complete circuit
The Miraflores Malecón is not a promenade. It is a sequence of parks, viewpoints, sculptures, and activity spaces that runs along the upper edge of the Costa Verde cliffs for approximately five kilometers in a north south direction. Each section has a different name, its own personality, and a type of visitor that frequents it. […]
Convent of Santo Domingo in Lima
A four-minute walk from the Plaza Mayor, following Jirón Camaná north, there is a convent that holds three of the most venerated saints in the Americas, the library where the Peruvian National Anthem was composed, and the hall where the oldest university on the continent was founded. The Convent of Santo Domingo is one of […]
Church of San Francisco and the catacombs of Lima
Half a block from the Plaza Mayor, on the corner of Jirón Ancash and Jirón Lampa, there is an architectural complex that from the outside seems like just another colonial church. The intense yellow Baroque façade with its two towers and carved stone portals is spectacular, but what makes the Convent of San Francisco one […]
Plaza Mayor of Lima: history and what to see
There are places that are simply the center of a city, and there are places that are the origin of everything that came after. Lima’s Plaza Mayor is both. Francisco Pizarro laid it out on January 18, 1535 as the point from which the grid of the City of Kings would be organized, and that […]
Lima Cathedral: complete guide
The Lima Cathedral has stood for nearly five centuries on the same site where Francisco Pizarro laid its first stone on the day he founded the city. Over that time, it survived earthquakes that brought down everything around it, was rebuilt several times with increasingly sophisticated materials to withstand the seismic activity of Peru’s coast, […]
Government Palace of Lima: tours, schedules and how to visit
The Government Palace occupies an entire block on the north side of Lima’s Plaza Mayor and has been the most representative building of political power in Peru since the city was founded in 1535. Most travelers see it from the square, photograph its facade, and stop at the gate. But the palace opens its doors […]