Quito

Declared by UNESCO Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity in 1978, Quito (2800 m.a.s.l.), is a large city loaded of history. The chronicler say, that before the Spanish foundation in 1534, the general of the Atahualpa Inca, Ruminahui (face of stone), set fire to the palaces and buildings constructed by the "sons of the Sun".

Into the later centuries, the land selected by the Inca Huayna Cápac to be the northern capital of its Empire, became with the sprouting of the School of Quito, in the heart of the art and the sculpture of Spanish America. The created masterpieces in this corner of the andes, united the European baroque style with the creativity of the men of the height. Quito, by its friendly people, its spring climate, its colonial shades that are opposed to the amazing buildings of the present, is one of those rare cities, that can seduce, enchant and - why not also to conquer, the nomadic heart of a traveller.