Trujillo City Tour: Colonial Mansions and Archaeology Museum
From €42 per person
See availability →A Trujillo city tour of about three hours through colonial churches, mansions and plazas, finishing at the Archaeology Museum, with hotel transfers, a guide and tickets included.
This Trujillo city tour covers the colonial centre in three hours, from convents and churches to old family houses, ending among the objects of the region's ancient cultures. A live guide speaks English or Spanish, and the transfers to and from your hotel in the city are included.
The route begins with a panoramic look at the churches of Santa Clara, El Carmen with its cloistered convents, and San Francisco, then moves on to La Merced and the Superior Court of Justice. On the Plaza de Armas you step into the Cathedral, whose construction ran from 1647 to 1666, and its altarpieces in rococo style and canvases of the Cusco and Quito schools.
- The Archbishop's Palace
- Casa Calonge, raised after the earthquake of 1619, where the liberator Simón Bolívar once stayed
- The Casa de la Emancipación and the Itúrregui Palace, built in 1842
- Plazuela El Recreo and the old City Wall
The last stop is the university museum of archaeology and history, run by the National University of Trujillo. Its rooms show pieces left by the many cultures of La Libertad. The entrance tickets are part of the tour; food, drinks and gratuities are not.