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Cuenca: Historical City Tour
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Experience Cuenca: Historical City Tour

By Cuenca Tours
Free cancellation available
Price is $33 per adult* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple travelers
Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 4h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages
Overview
  • Be transported back to Historial Cuenca through its Historic Buildings
  • Discover Cuenca´s anciest thecniques
  • Marvel at the magnificent interior of the Old and New Cathedral
  • Buy an authentic Panama Hat "Toquilla Hat" made in Cuenca
  • Fall in love with the Colonial, Neoclasic, Gothic and renaissance architecture

Activity location

    • Cuenca
    • Cuenca, Azuay, Ecuador

Meeting/Redemption Point

    • You Must be ready at a specific time We can wait for you 5 minutes max You can ask to be taken from your hotel instead Pick up at "Dunkin’ Donuts - Casa del Parque" there is no "874" signal so ask for Dunkin’ Donuts I´ll be waiting for you
    • Cuenca, Azuay, Ecuador

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Experience Cuenca: Historical City Tour
  • Activity duration is 4 hours4h4h
  • English
Starting time: 8:00am
Price details
$32.50 x 1 Adult$32.50

Total
Price is $32.50

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedHotel pickup and drop-off
  • What's includedWhat's includedEntrance to the old Cathedral
  • What's includedWhat's includedEntrance to the New Cathedral
  • What's includedWhat's includedEntrance to the New Cathedral terrace
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedTypical Drink At "Plaza de las Flores"
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedGratuities
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedTips
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedLuch

Know before you book

  • Not suitable for: Children under 11 years, People with mobility impairments, Pregnant women

What you can expect

Explore Cuenca starting from the main square “Calderon Park”. Name taken from “Abdon Calderon”. A brave man who, despite having received four bullet wounds, he continued in battle, encouraging his entire battalion, and continuing to carry the flag.
Visit the first seminary in Cuenca. Discover the seminary courtyard and its awesome views. Explore Santa Ana street runs between the new cathedral and San Luis seminary. It is said to be one of the oldest streets in Cuenca.

Find St. Paul holding the key to the gates of heaven and also the bicephalous eagle of Charles III of Spain next to the flower market. Try “Pitimas Water” made by the nuns. It is made of cultivated medicinal plants and flowers from the interior gardens, and is said to have healing and relaxing properties. Fall in love with the most incredible flower market you've ever seen. National Geographic considers it one of the top ten outdoor flower markets in the world.

Enjoy the variety and freshness of fruit and vegetables at the local market. Explore the Panama Hat tradition and learn about an awesome ancient technique.
Learn about some incredible facts about what the city used to be before its independence. Walk by some beautiful streets and experience mix of architecture whenever you walk.

Transport yourself to a different decade by exploring the restored Remigio Crespo Museum. Observe two different facades, restored architecture, ceilings, wallpaper and mural paintings. It was the first building of its style and status in this area all in exposed brick.

Find the two Castilian lions carved on the front door protecting bassed tin celing.
Observe the polychrome brass of the ceilings was imported from France and the stained glass windows from Belgium.

Be awesomed by the Religius Art at the old Cathedral Museum, by the walls made of adobe with Inca stone foundations extracted from the ruins at Pumapungo. Go up to the terrace in the New Cathedral and take awesome photos with the domes. Visit a clasic Herital House with some hidden art pictures.

Location

Activity location

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    • Cuenca
    • Cuenca, Azuay, Ecuador

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    • You Must be ready at a specific time We can wait for you 5 minutes max You can ask to be taken from your hotel instead Pick up at "Dunkin’ Donuts - Casa del Parque" there is no "874" signal so ask for Dunkin’ Donuts I´ll be waiting for you
    • Cuenca, Azuay, Ecuador