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Lima is crammed with culture. The entire city is awash with intricate traditional colonial architecture, with a veritable mass of historic monuments and a lively cultural and arts scene. Lima also boasts to having the best museums in the entire country containing some of the Inca nation’s greatest treasures. In particular, the magnificent Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Arqueologia e Historia boasts one of the biggest collections of pieces and jewels of gold, silver, semi precious stones, ceramic and textiles of various Mesoamerican cultures, whilst the Museo de Oro del Peru is packed with pre-Columbian metals, weavings and mummies. UNESCO has even declared Lima’s old city, where most of the city’s sights can be found, a World Heritage Site. The slightly Moorish San Francisco and the Plaza Mayor brim with wonderful buildings around huge airy, open courtyards. There are magnificent churches and the eerie catacombs of San Francisco are unmissable for their creepy arrangements of human bones including a large circle made of skulls. Lima is a much-misunderstood city, but don’t misunderstand the fact that this city is saturated in wonderful South American culture.
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