Ayacucho Culture and Sights

The always well attended by marketable Church (1568) is among the finest in the city. Inside it has a ornate carved pulpit and an old Mudejar coffered ceiling. Gray Jr.

On the north side of the Plaza Mayor, on the corner of Portal de la Unión and Asamblea, are the Casonas de los Marqueses de Mozobamba y del Pozo, also called Velarde-Alvarez. Recently restored as the ...

Ayacucho is built round the Plaza Mayor in the centre of which is a statue of Independence hero Antonio José de Sucre. Facing onto the plaza are the cathedral, Municipalidad, the Prefectura and the Su...

Back near the centre, the 16th-century church of La Merced (2 de Mayo, near San Martín, open for Mass) is the second oldest in the city. The high choir is a good example of the simplicity of the churc...

Further south still, on a pretty plazuela, is Santa Teresa (28 de Julio, block 6, open daily for Mass 1600) with its monastery dating from 1683. It has magnificent gold-leafed altars, heavily brocaded...

Further south still, on a pretty plazuela, is Santa Teresa (28 de Julio, block 6, open daily for Mass 1600) with its monastery dating from 1683. It has magnificent gold-leafed altars, heavily brocaded...

Santa Clara de Asís (Jr Grau, block 3, open for Mass) is renowned for its beautifully delicate coffered ceiling and for the statue of Jesús de Nazareno, patron of Huamanga, which heads the procession ...

Santa Clara de Asís (Jr Grau, block 3, open for Mass) is renowned for its beautifully delicate coffered ceiling and for the statue of Jesús de Nazareno, patron of Huamanga, which heads the procession ...

The first two blocks, Boulevard de 28 de Julio, are pedestrianized. Go through the arch to the church of San Francisco de Asís (28 de Julio, block 3, open daily for morning mass and 1730-1830) . It da...