Ayacucho

Cathedral

Ayacucho

This spectacular 17th-century cathedral on the Plaza de Armas has a religious-art museum inside. The moody facade doesn’t quite prepare you for the…

Museo de la Memoria

Ayacucho

Ayacucho’s most haunting museum, remembers the impact the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) had on Peru in the city that was most deeply affected by the…

Museo de Arte Popular

Ayacucho

Displays popular art covering the ayacucheño (natives of Ayacucho) spectrum – silverwork, rug- and tapestry-weaving, stone and woodcarvings, ceramics …

Vilcashuamán

Ayacucho

This former Inca stronghold was once considered the geographical center of the Inca empire. It was believed to have been a city constructed in the shape…

Wari Ruins

Ayacucho

Sprawling for several kilometers along a cactus-forested roadside are the extensive ruins of Wari, the capital of the eponymous empire, which predated the…

Museo Arqueológico Hipólito Unanue

Ayacucho

Wari ceramics make up most of the small exhibition here, along with relics from the region’s other various civilizations. The museum buildings are set in…

Casa Museo Joaquín López Antay

Ayacucho

This captivating little museum is really part art gallery and part an explanation of the process of retablo making. Retablos, ornamental, originally…

Prefectura

Ayacucho

Most of Ayacucho's old mansions are now mainly political offices and can be visited, usually during business hours. These offices of the department of…