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1. Castillo San Felipe de Barajas
A Spanish colonial fortress, a triangular stronghold of batteries, ramparts and tunnels on the San Lázaro hill that guarded the city's land approach.
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2. Cerro San Cristóbal (Parque Metropolitano)
Santiago's largest public park covers the slopes of San Cristóbal hill, with a 1925 funicular, a cable car, gardens, pools and a giant Virgin statue at the top.
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3. Christ the Redeemer (Cristo Redentor)
The Art Deco statue of Christ on the summit of Corcovado, dedicated in 1931 and reached by a rack railway that has run since 1884.
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4. MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo
São Paulo's best-known art museum, raised above Avenida Paulista on Lina Bo Bardi's suspended concrete structure and holding more than 8,000 works from Raphael to Portinari.
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5. Museo de Antioquia
Medellín's principal art museum, founded as the Zea Museum in 1881 and home to a large donation of works by Fernando Botero beside Plaza Botero.
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6. Museo del Oro
The Banco de la República's Gold Museum on Parque Santander holds tens of thousands of pre-Columbian pieces, including the Muisca raft linked to the El Dorado story.
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7. Plaza Mayor de Lima
Lima's main square, laid out when Francisco Pizarro founded the city in 1535 and framed by the cathedral, the Government Palace and the Municipal Palace.
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8. Sacsayhuamán
The great Inca complex on the hill above Cusco, famed for zigzag terrace walls of huge, precisely fitted stones and a plaza still used for Inti Raymi.
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9. Teatro Colón
Buenos Aires' great opera house, opened in 1908 with Verdi's Aida and famed for its acoustics, with daily 50-minute guided tours of its halls.
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10. Monserrate
The 3,152-metre peak above central Bogotá, reached by funicular, cable car or a steep pilgrim path, with a 17th-century sanctuary and views over the city.
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11. Museo Larco
A private museum of pre-Columbian Peruvian art in an 18th-century viceroyal building in Pueblo Libre, known for its gold and silver gallery, erotic ceramics and walk-through storage.
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12. Palacio de La Moneda
Chile's neoclassical presidential palace, built as the colonial mint and bombed in the 1973 coup, with a changing of the guard and a cultural centre beneath its southern square.
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13. Parque Ibirapuera
São Paulo's best-loved park, opened in 1954 for the city's 400th anniversary, with 158 hectares of lawns and lakes and a complex of buildings designed by Oscar Niemeyer.
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14. Plaza Botero
An open-air square of 7,000 square metres in central Medellín displaying 23 bronze sculptures donated by Fernando Botero, framed by two of the city's landmark buildings.
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15. Qorikancha (Coricancha and Santo Domingo)
The Inca Empire's most important temple, dedicated to the sun god Inti, with fine stone rooms surviving inside the Dominican church and convent of Santo Domingo.
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16. Recoleta Cemetery
A walled city of 4,691 above-ground vaults opened in 1822, where Eva Perón, presidents, Nobel laureates and writers rest among ornate tombs.
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17. Sugarloaf Mountain (Pão de Açúcar)
The 396-metre granite peak at the mouth of Guanabara Bay, reached by Brazil's first cable car, which opened in 1912 and stops at Morro da Urca.
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18. Walls of Cartagena
Around 11 km of colonial walls and bastions enclosing Cartagena's historic centre, free to walk and at their best around sunset over the Caribbean.
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19. Basilica and Convent of San Francisco
A 17th-century Franciscan church and convent in Lima's historic centre, visited for its Baroque facade, tiled cloister, old library and the catacombs beneath the church.
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20. Casa Rosada
The pink presidential palace on Plaza de Mayo, created by joining two 19th-century buildings, with a museum built around the remains of the old fort.
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