Plaza de Armas

Ayacucho


One of the prettiest plazas in the Central Andes, flanked by many gorgeous mansions, including the Prefectura. Ask at the tourist office for details on how to visit these buildings.


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Nearby Ayacucho attractions

1. Museo de Arte Popular

0.04 MILES

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

2. Cathedral

0.05 MILES

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…

3. Prefectura

0.06 MILES

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…

5. Templo Compañía de Jesús

0.1 MILES

This church has two fine bell towers and, in the body of the structure supporting them, striking embossings and motifs. It sits on the site of its 1605…

8. Iglesia de La Merced

0.14 MILES

This church, built in the mid-16th century, is full of colonial art and has one of Peru’s oldest convents attached, dating from the same period.