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1. 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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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. Cusco Cathedral
The Renaissance cathedral on the north-east side of the Plaza de Armas, built on an Inca palace and filled with Cusco School paintings and carved altars.
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7. Lima Cathedral
The cathedral on the east side of the Plaza Mayor, rebuilt several times after earthquakes, holds the tomb of Francisco Pizarro and a museum of colonial religious art.
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8. Plaza de Armas
Cusco's main square, the Inca Huacaypata, framed by the Cathedral, the Compañía church and colonial arcades built over Inca palaces.
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9. Huaca Pucllana
A large adobe pyramid built by the Lima culture between about AD 200 and 700, preserved in the middle of Miraflores with a small site museum and guided tours.
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10. Iglesia de la Compañía de Jesús
The Jesuit church on the Plaza de Armas, rebuilt after the 1650 earthquake with a Baroque stone facade and a gilded cedar altarpiece over 20 metres high.
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11. Museo de Arte Precolombino (MAP)
A compact museum of pre-Columbian art from the Museo Larco collection, in a restored colonial mansion on Plaza de las Nazarenas, open daily until 22:00.
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12. Pachacamac Archaeological Sanctuary
A vast pre-Hispanic sanctuary in the Lurín valley about 40 km south-east of Lima, used for some 1,300 years and crowned by the Inca Temple of the Sun.
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13. Basilica and Convent of Santo Domingo
A Dominican church and convent founded in the 1530s, with the tombs of Saint Rose of Lima and Saint Martin de Porres and cloisters lined with 17th-century tiles.
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14. Pisac Archaeological Park
A hilltop Inca citadel and sweeping farming terraces above the town of Pisac, at the southern end of the Sacred Valley about 32 km from Cusco.
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15. Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI)
Peru's main art museum, housed in the 1872 Exhibition Palace in Parque de la Exposición, covering about 3,000 years of Peruvian art from ancient textiles to modern painting.
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16. Ollantaytambo
A living Inca town in the Sacred Valley with a terraced temple hill, the Wall of the Six Monoliths and streets still laid out on the original grid.
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17. Moray
Inca terraces laid out in deep circular depressions near Maras, about 50 km from Cusco, thought to have served as an agricultural testing ground.
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18. Museo Pedro de Osma
A 1906 French-style summer mansion in Barranco that houses a collection of more than 400 works of viceregal art, silverwork and Huamanga stone carving in 14 rooms.
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19. Circuito Mágico del Agua
A complex of 13 computer-controlled fountains in the 1920s Parque de la Reserva, recognised by Guinness as the largest fountain complex in a public park, best seen after dark.
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20. Tipón
An Inca estate about 22 km south-east of Cusco, known for its great terraces and working stone channels and fountains fed by a natural spring.
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