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A long pedestrian street crowded with shoppers, vendors and
sightseers connects Lima's two main plazas to each other. The heart
of the old town is centred on the striking Plaza Mayor, or Plaza...
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The superb anthropological and archaeological National Museum
contains excellent exhibits tracing the history of Peru's ancient
civilisations and provides an outstanding overview of...
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Housed in a fortress-like building are the safe-rooms crammed
with treasures from the Inca civilisation and their predecessors.
The massive collection of gleaming gold, ceremonial objects...
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The 18th century colonial-style museum houses the largest and
most impressive ceramic collection in the world, with about 55,000
pre-Colombian clay pots on display. The collection concentrates...
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The most spectacular of Lima's colonial churches, San Francisco
is a striking white and yellow building with twin towers and a
stone façade. It was one of the few buildings to survive...
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Pisco is a small port and fishing village, best known for its
fiery white grape brandy of the same name. It also boasts the
origins of one of the major ancient civilisations in Peru, the
Paracas...
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Nazca is a small desert town, named for the Nazca civilisation
that came after the Paracas culture, and it is a major attraction
due to the mysterious presence of the lines and diagrams...
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