Basin It is known for its cobblestone streets, its ancient cathedrals, its colonial parks, and the rivers that run through it. The city has become one of the favorite places for the arrival of retired foreigners. This phenomenon is due to the fact that in 2009 the magazine “International Living” named La Atenas del Ecuador as the best place to live for retirees.
Cuenca is the capital of the province of Azuay, the third largest city in Ecuador and the economic center of the southern Sierra. These distinctions, together with the incredible level of conservation of its historical and cultural heritage, have led to Cuenca being named by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
tourist sites of the city
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Also known as the New Cathedral, it has 3 different styles, on the front it is Neo-Gothic, the Renaissance-style domes and the Romanesque-style semicircular arches, the church is built with bricks glued with lime and sand, a mixture called mortar, it totally lacks iron and cement.
The Cathedral has a capacity for 7,000 people, due to the fact that the church had architectural problems, it could not support the weight for the bell towers. In front of the cathedral is Parque Calderón and next to it, the San Luis Seminary, a place with many restaurants.
Archaeological Museum of the Central Bank Pumapungo
A site full of history and nature, it is located on Larga and Huyna Capac streets, inside it maintains permanent exhibitions of archaeology, colonial art, pre-Columbian art, republican art, history of Ecuador, ethnology and numismatics. The visit to the museum is completed in the gardens of the Inca, where there is an imposing Andean construction of the ruins of Pumapungo or Puerta del Puma.
Turi viewpoint
The viewpoint has a panoramic and unique view that allows you to observe the city in all its splendor, this place is an obligatory stop for national and foreign tourists; It is known as “the balcony of Cuenca”.
El Cajas National Park
It is a lake area of 28,544 hectares of grasslands, this is one of the very representative tourist places in Cuenca, it has approximately 250 lagoons located between 3,152 and 4,445 meters above sea level and constitutes the most important water reserve in Cuenca.
Municipal Museum of Modern Art
The Museum has collections made up of a wide variety of works of art, including drawing, painting, engraving, serigraphy, ink, lithography, wood-painting, etching, intaglio, sculpture, art-object, installations, photography, etc. Its most representative collections are: Painting by Luis Crespo Ordóñez, Ecuador; Painting by Manuel Rendón SeminarioEcuador; Sculpture of Jesus Soto, Venezuela, as well as works of art awarded in the different biennial competitions. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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