Lima

Peru

Not one of Latin America’s most immediately exciting cities, Lima nonetheless has excellent hotels, world-renowned museums and a pleasant seafront district; Miraflores, with superb seafood restaurants.

The city’s historical centre and its Plaza Mayor is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with finely preserved colonial architecture. This is the spot in which Francisco Pizarro founded the city in 1535 and in which Peruvians declared their independence in 1821.

Tour the gold-leaf altars and paintings of the Cathedral on the eastern edge, and visit the Church of San Francisco a couple of blocks northeast with its 17th-century convent and extensive network of catacombs.

The archaeological and anthropological museum of gold contains a priceless collection of pre-Columbian gold artefacts; an impressive sight even for those who didn’t think themselves museum buffs.

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