Historic sites

Quito old town

Ecuador Pichincha Quito

Quito old town
Photo: C T Johansson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

One of the best-preserved colonial centres in Latin America, a UNESCO site, at 2,850 m, with the gold-covered La Compañía church and the Basílica del Voto Nacional, whose towers you can climb.


Ride the TelefériQo cable car for views. The equator monument is just north.

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