Hotel El Mesón Ayacucho

Ayacucho


This is a great, central bargain, with voluminous rooms (each with a cable TV set that isn't a lot smaller) set way back on the other side of a courtyard. Building exteriors are not the cutest around but the rooms are good for such a pretty price.


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1. Cathedral

0.11 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. Iglesia de La Merced

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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.

4. Casa Museo Joaquín López Antay

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

5. Otto Malena

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6. Plaza de Armas

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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…

7. Museo de Arte Popular

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

8. Prefectura

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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…