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Basílica y Convento de San Francisco de Lima

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The crypts of San Francisco, which have gained fame with the name of catacombs for similarity to the Roman ones, are a series of underground vaults (under the chapels of the church), these were used until the early nineteenth century, and served as a burial to members of brotherhoods and brotherhoods.

Tacna Historical Museum

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Historical Regional museum of Tacna, is located in the Street Apurimac 202 (I Center of the city)

Marina Núñez Del Prado Museum

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In the 1970s, the sculptor Marina Núñez del Prado Viscarra, born on October 17, 1910 in La Paz, Bolivia, installed her residence and workshop in what would later be her House Museum, located in the Ántero Aspillaga 300 street, in full heart of El Olivar Forest.

Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Perú

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The National Museum of Archeology, Anthropology and History of Peru (MNAAHP) is the first museum in Peru; the largest, oldest and most representative of our country. He was the only one that Peru had in the first hundred years of the Republic.

Museo de Sitio Arturo Jiménez Borja - Puruchuco

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Mud and adobe construction belonging to the Inca period. It is considered to be a palace or administrative center of great importance. The distribution of space has geometric lines and is divided into three sectors among which a set of patios and viewpoints stands out. During the excavation process, human burials were discovered, accompanied by everyday objects. It has a site museum.

National Afro-Peruvian Museum

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Located in the Casa de las Trece Monedas, a colonial rococo mansion from the 18th century, you find the Afro-Peruvian National Museum. The museum explains the history of Afro-Americans in Peru and the contribution their culture made to the country. Main subjects are slavery and the beginnings of the trade of African slaves in Latin America including the characteristics of this phenomenon, social groups, life of slaves in Peru.

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Andean Sanctuaries Museum

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This museum located just off the Plaza de Armas as La Merced No 1001 houses the famous Ice Princess mummy named Juanita. She was found on the 6300meter + volcano of Ampato in 1995 by the Zarate’s and the anthropologist Dr. Reinhard

Chan Chan Archeological Area

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One of the most significant archeological sites in Peru, Chan Chan is well worth a visit. In the native Mochica language, its name is Jang-Jang, which means: Sun-Sun. It was the capital of the Chimú kingdom, which stretched along the entire north coast between 1100- 145 AD, before being conquered by the Incas.

Huaca Huallamarca

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This archaeological monument is duly preserved, and contrasts with the modern buildings that are located around it, being a clear testimony of the great legacy left by ancient societies. Archaeological works have shown that the building shows a long and continuous cultural sequence.

Huaca Pucllana

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Huaca Pucllana or Huaca Juliana(possibly from Quechua wak'a a local shrine to a protector deity, a sacred place, sacred, pukllana game) is a great adobe and clay pyramid located in the Miraflores district of central Lima , Peru, built from seven staggered platforms.

Museo Inka

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It is one of the most notable colonial houses in Cusco. Built in the early seventeenth century, with Inca stones, by Lieutenant Corrector Francisco Aldrete Maldonado, called the Admiral East inhabited it until his death in 1643. Rebuilt by Pedro Peralta de los Rios after the earthquake of 1650 and was again restored by the University San Antonio Abad of Cusco after the earthquake of 1950.

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