Instituto Riva-Aguero

Lima


Toward the center of downtown, this traditional casona houses the small Museum of Art & Popular Tradition.


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5. Museo Central

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The cornflower-blue Casa de Oquendo is a ramshackle turn-of-the-19th-century house (in its time, the tallest in Lima) with a creaky lookout tower that, on…

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