Quito First UNESCO World Heritage Site

Too valuable to have just a simple city tour…

There are 320 hectares of living historical monuments built in the 16th and 17th century by the finest artists of the world with the original architectonical plans of Michael Angelo, Vigñola, Herrera, Bramante, Guerra, Bermini, Becerra, etc. So much value that Quito won its “heritage” title against Rome.

Quito is not just spectacular buildings and plazas built on top of Inca walls; FlashTravel will show you golden baroque pulpits carved by Juan Bautista Menacho which are the finest of the 17th century and no one can compete with the golden altarpieces by Bernardo de Legarda in the 18th century. Fine Moorish paneling surrounded with miraculous statuary carved on wood by Diego de Robles, Caspicara and Father Carlos in the models of the Spanish masters Juan Martinez Montañez and Pedro de Mena are bounded with paintings of the most famous American artists like Miguel de Santiago, Nicolas Goríbar and Pedro Bedón based on the engravings of Rubens and lessons of Francisco de Zurbarán and Bernardo Bitti.
Father Juan de Velasco the greatest Jesuit historian wrote in his 18th century book Modern History of Quito Kingdom :” Just a few have become renowned and of great name. Among the old ones one took the aclamations of all, in the painting Miguel de Santiago pal of Ticiano and Micheal Angelo, whose works were seen with admiration in Rome as he matched Velasquez and exceeded Murillo. In more recent times Andrés Moral ... I knew several Indians and mestisos, leaders in Art; but no one like Bernardo de Legarda, monstrous talent and ability for everything. Its monumental staruary I dare to say that can be put without fear in competition with the rarest of Europe”.
FlashTravel has specially created various routes to focus all the wealth Quito holds.

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Site lectures on Hispanic Art (an enchanting visit of Quito) / snack
5½ hours US$ 102

A Site lecture on Hispanic art of the first UNESCO cultural heritage site to admire Flemish school paintings, Spanish baroque style sculptures and monuments designed by the best masters of the Italian Renaissance – Baroque periods. Program includes Plaza del Teatro, San Agustín (1581) and the famous “ Chapter Room ” where independence was signed, Presidential palace, Independence Square, the Metropolitan Cathedral with the treasures of the Archbishop (1550), the golden masterpiece of the baroque La Compañía (1605) holding Ecuador's best series of colonial paintings and relics like our lady saint Mariana de Jesus and the image of our Lady of the Sorrow (La Dolorosa del Colegio) which cried tears of blood in 1906. End up at San Francisco (1535), the biggest Latin America religious art museum paid back to Quito by Spain.

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Retreats and Parishes (Baroque Quito )
5 hours US$ 102

Beginning in at chapel of our lady of Guashayacu, a gift of Charles V, A chapel full of works of art of our most relevant artists where the miracle of bringing back to live of a dead woman took place in the 17 century. We continue to the old section of Quito to discover the parishes of Quito such as La Merced or Santo Domingo home of glorious Padre Bedón. We make up your day at the retreat of the Franciscans.

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Greatest Religious Art Museums in America
5 hours US$102

Let our art specialists lead you through the most important Religious Art Museums of America full of masterpieces of Miguel de Santiago, Nicolas Goríbar, Andres Sanchez Gualpe, Mateo Mexia just to mention a few painters and Caspicara, Legarda, Brother Carlos, Jose Olmos “Pampite” or Menacho.

Your choice of Museums:

Pedro Gocial
Miguel de Santiago
Pedro Bedón

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Civil Museums
5 hours US$ 102

Learn about Quito at the City museum, the house of Field Marshal Antonio José de Sucre and learn about our first independence movement and the colonial life style at Metropolitan cultural Center.

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Equatorial line experience
4 hours US$ 120

15 minutes north of the capital City is found the new monument to the French Geodesic Expedition that in 1736 measured a circumference arch of earth in order to determine its shape and exact size. Currently the monument contains a complete ethnographic museum about the Indian cultures of Ecuador with more than 20 different groups represented. Clients will be having also a visit to the Solar Theme Park (Museo Intiñan) where representations of the main pre-Inca monuments showing its relationship to astronomy are displayed. Also there is a typical house of the High Andes with all its utensils and pets there is also a collection of objects gathered with the groups of the Ecuadorian Amazon. The visit includes a commemorative diploma of having crossed the Equatorial line.

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Archaeology Museum
3 hours US$ 98

The collection displays from the arrowheads of "El Inga" (10.000 a. C.) up to the Inca vessels (from 1.437 to 1.534 d. C.), the museum shows cultures such as La Tolita (500 to. C. Until 500 d. C.) Who molded ceramics in sea sand with strong mythological motives among those, they emphasized the puma. All the gold and platinum in the museum belong to this culture. We will be able also to appreciate the finest carvings in colorful painted wood by the Quiteño School of Arts dating from XVI century to the XVIII century, as well as linens of the most important America painters of this period.

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Capilla del Hombre
1 hour US$ 98

It is the bleeding heart of America, the bleeding heart of America and priority project for world culture (Sr. Federico Mayor Zaragoza, General Secretary of UNESCO) . Admire selected murals by Oswaldo Guayasamín.

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Designer's choice
3 hours US$ 102

La Mariscal district is now an area where you can discover the finest handcrafts in Latin America, real designer choices in Alpaca wool, 18 kart gold, real Panama huts and many more curiosities like books, maps and different items for collectors. There are many art houses where Ecuadorian youth artists' projects are exposed, salons where antiquities, jewelers and several art pieces that can be acquired.

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Thousand and one nights with Gala dinner
3 hours US$ RQ

The new lights system of Quito reveals details that you cannot see during the day. It is also the ideal environment to talk about the iconography of churches and cathedrals and to maybe recreate some famous legends, like the missing stone in San Francisco. Let us surprise the most demanding tastes with our choice of gourmet dine around opportunities.