HISTORIC CENTER
The Historic Centre is known as the "Reliquary of American Art," and is a World Heritage Site.
Primary attractions:
Museums
Aurelio Espinoza Pólit Museum: History, Paints, Sculptures, Culture and Maps.
José Nogales 220 y Francisco Arcos.
Telephone: 2492190 / 2491157
Hours:
Tuesday to Friday: 9h00 - 18h00
Casa de Sucre Museum: Republican Art and Colonial History
Venezuela 573 y Sucre.
Telephone: 2952860
Hours:
Tuesday to Saturday: 9h00 to 16h00
San Diego Convent Museum: Religious Art
Calicuchima 117 y Farfán.
Telephone: 2952516
Hours:
Monday to Sunday: 9h00-13h30 and 14h30-17h00
Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana- Museum: Gold Salon, Colonial, Republican and Contemporary Art
Av. 12 de Octubre y Patria
Telephone: 2223392
Hours:
Tuesday to Friday: 10h00 - 18h00 Saturday: 10h00 to 14h00
Shuar Anthropologic Museum: Etnología
Av. 12 de Octubre 1430 y Wilson
Telephone: 2506247 / 2562633
Hours: Mopnday to Friday: 9h00-12h30 and 14h00-18h00
Guayasamin Museum: Archeology, Colonial and Modern Art
José Bosmediano 543 y José Carbo.
Telephone: 2446455 / 2452938
Hours:
Monday to Friday: 9h00 - 13h00 and 15h00 - 18h30
| Museum of the City | 1 |
| García Moreno 572 y Rocafuerte | |
| Telephone: 2283882 / 2282883 | |
| Hours: Tuesday to Sunday: 9h30 - 17h30 |
Maria Augusta Urrutia Museum:
García Moreno 760 entre Sucre y Bolívar
Telephone: 2580107 / 2580103
Hours:
Tuesday to Sunday: 9h00 - 17h00
Astronomic observatory Museum– Alameda Park: astronomic, geologic and meteorology instruments
Alameda Park
Telephone: 2570765
Hours:
Monday to Friday: 9h00 - 12h00 and 15h00 - 17h00 Saturay: 9h00 - 13h00
National Museum of the Medicine History:
García Moreno 524 y Av. 24 de Mayo
Telephone: 2573792 / 2581768
Hours:
Monday to Friday: 9h00 -15h00
Yaku Water Museum:
This Park and Museum is an interactive space that provides citizen education and the appropriation of the patrimony of water, as a collective and strategic legacy, through intercultural gathering, learning, reflection and interpretation.”
LOCATION: El Placer neighborhood
El Panecillo Hill
Long valued as a natural lookout, this hill in central Quito was named "Panecillo," or "little bread loaf" due to its shape. At 3,000 meters (almost 10,000 feet) above sea level, it offers a stunning view of Quito and the natural Andean beauty which surrounds the city.
On the summit of Panecillo Hill is the monument to the Virgin Mary created in 1976 by the Spanish artist Agustín de la Herrán Matorras. It is composed of seven thousand pieces and is considered the greatest aluminum sculpture in the world.
The statue of the virgin is a large-scale copy of the 30-centimeter (12 inch) one created in the 18th century by Bernardo de Legarda. The original is in the convent of the San Francisco Church.
Theatres
| Bolivar Theatre | |
| 2 | Sucre Theatre |
| Quito Workshop School |
Churches and Convets
| San Diego Church | |
| 3 | San Roque Church |
| El Robo Chapel | |
| 4 | Monastery of Santa Clara of San Millán |
| Monastery and Church of Carmen Alto | |
| 5 | Church and Convent of Santo Domingo |
| Cantuña’s Chapel | |
| 6 | Church and Convent of San Francisco |
| 7 | La Compañía de Jesús Church |
| Church of the Sagrario | |
| 8 | Metropolitan Cathedral of Quito |
| 9 | Monastery of Santa Catalina of Siena |
| 10 | Church and Convent of la Merced |
| 11 | Church and Convent of la Concepción |
| Monastery and Church of Carmen Bajo | |
| Santa Bárbara Church | |
| 12 | San Juan Convent |
| 13 | Voto Nacional Basilica |
| San Blas Church | |
| Belén Church | |
| Church and Convent of Guapulo | |
| La Floresta Church |
Plazas and Monuments
| 14 | Plaza Grande or Plaza de la Independencia |
| 15 | Archbishop's Palace |
| Belmonte Plaza | |
| 16 | San Francisco Plaza |
| 17 | Santo Domingo Plaza |
| La Recoleta Plaza | |
| Santa Clara Plaza | |
| 18 | Theatre Square |
| St. Augustine Square | |
| Merced Square | |
| San Blas Square | |
| Government Palace |
Reservation Toll Free: 1-888-790-5264
Tel.: 593 + 2 2510 777 Email: info@plazagrandequito.com
