Cuenca Historic Center Self-Guided Audio Walk: Blue Domes, Flower Market and Both Cathedrals
85 minutes
About this experience
Cuenca's colonial grid was laid out in 1557. In the late nineteenth century, money from straw hats (the Panama hat) and cinchona bark gave its adobe houses new French-style fronts, often copied from postcards, while the courtyards behind them stayed. Start in Plaza de San Sebastián, scene of a deadly riot against a French scientific expedition in 1739, and walk Calle Simón Bolívar's row of stucco, iron balconies and carved eaves to a hat exporter's corner house. Then pass Santo Domingo's twin towers, the flower market under the New Cathedral's blue domes, Plaza de San Francisco, Parque Calderón, the Old Cathedral, the blank walls of the Conceptas convent and San Alfonso. Ten stops, about 2 km and 85 minutes, in English or Spanish, at your own pace. Flat and step-free. Museum entries are not included.
What's included
Walk Cuenca's colonial grid from Plaza de San Sebastián along Calle Simón Bolívar's republican fronts to the flower market, the blue domes, both cathedrals, the Conceptas convent and San Alfonso.
Good to know
Operated by Roamer and sold by AGORA. Your voucher and booking reference arrive by email straight after payment.