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Museo Arqueológico Hipólito Unánue
The small Museo Arqueológico Hipólito Unánue, set in the botanical garden of the Universidad, exhibits artifacts of the Wari, who were the rulers of these lands before the Inca conquest in the 15th century. Also featured are local finds of Chimú, Moche, Chavín, Ica, Nazca and other...
The small Museo Arqueológico Hipólito Unánue, set in the botanical garden of the Universidad, exhibits artifacts of the Wari, who were the rulers of these lands before the Inca conquest in the 15th century. Also featured are local finds of Chimú, Moche, Chavín, Ica, Nazca and other...
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Ayacucho, Peru
Ayacucho, Peru
Museo de Arte Popular Joaquín López Antay
Named for Joaquín López Antay, one of Ayacucho’s great retablo artists, the Museo de Arte Popular features folk art from Ayacucho and surrounding villages. On display are textiles, filigreed silver, ceramics and, of course, retablos—multi-tiered sculptures of religious and...
Named for Joaquín López Antay, one of Ayacucho’s great retablo artists, the Museo de Arte Popular features folk art from Ayacucho and surrounding villages. On display are textiles, filigreed silver, ceramics and, of course, retablos—multi-tiered sculptures of religious and...
Museum
Ayacucho, Peru
Ayacucho, Peru
Semana Santa in Ayacucho
Semana Santa, or Holy Week, Latin America’s most important religious holiday, begins on Palm Sunday and culminates on Easter Sunday. Ayacucho’s celebrations are amongst the most traditional. Spectacular processions are accentuated by flower-carpeted streets and ninatoros (bull...
Semana Santa, or Holy Week, Latin America’s most important religious holiday, begins on Palm Sunday and culminates on Easter Sunday. Ayacucho’s celebrations are amongst the most traditional. Spectacular processions are accentuated by flower-carpeted streets and ninatoros (bull...
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Ayacucho, Peru
Ayacucho, Peru
Ruinas Vilcashuamán and Baños Intihuatana
A four-hour (110-kilometer) bus journey south of Ayacucho brings you to Vilcashuamán (meaning Sacred Falcon), the Incan provincial capital at the crossroads of their Cusco-Pacific and north-south highways. Notable ruins are a double-seated stone throne upon a five-tiered usnu (platform...
A four-hour (110-kilometer) bus journey south of Ayacucho brings you to Vilcashuamán (meaning Sacred Falcon), the Incan provincial capital at the crossroads of their Cusco-Pacific and north-south highways. Notable ruins are a double-seated stone throne upon a five-tiered usnu (platform...
Ruin
Ayacucho, Peru
Ayacucho, Peru
Complejo Arqueológico Wari
Complejo Arqueológico Wari sprawls along the highway from Ayacucho to Quinua. Five signed entrances lead to the ruins of this once-great Wari capital. You can yet see the thick walls towering 12 meters (39 feet), tunnels, underground burial chambers, ceremonial plazas and homes of its estimated...
Complejo Arqueológico Wari sprawls along the highway from Ayacucho to Quinua. Five signed entrances lead to the ruins of this once-great Wari capital. You can yet see the thick walls towering 12 meters (39 feet), tunnels, underground burial chambers, ceremonial plazas and homes of its estimated...
Ruin
Ayacucho, Peru
Ayacucho, Peru
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