Ecuador - The Rough Guide to South America on a Budget - page 597

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EATING
Cacao y Canela
Café Austria
El Cafécito
Los Capuliés
El Jordán
Moliendo Café
El Pedregal Azteca
Raymipampa
Taj Mahal
Tiestos

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Santo Domingo

San Sebastián

Mercado 9
de Octubre

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NIGHTLIFE
Café Eucalyptus
Monday Blue
Tal Cual
Wunderbar

PLAZA SAN
SEBASTIÁN

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El Cenáculo

Museo de Arte
Moderno

Catedral
Nueva

Parque
Calderón

Flower
Market

Catedral
Vieja

San Francisco

PLAZA SAN
FRANCISCO

Museo Remigio
Crespo Toral

Museo de las
Culturas Aborígenes

ACCOMMODATION
El Cafécito
El Capitolio
La Casa Cuencana
Hostal Casa del
Barranco
Hostal Chordeleg
Hostal La Cigale
Hostal Colonial
Hostal Monarca
Hostal Posada
del Ángel
Macondo
Orquidea
Príncipe
Hotel Victoria

Museo de
Artes Populares

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Iglesia Todos
los Santos

Puente Roto

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Stadium

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Mirador de Turi

gold-leaf altar and the massive sky-blue
domes, best viewed from the side or rear.
To the left of the cathedral entrance,
along Calle Sucre on the Plazoleta del
Carmen, is a flower market. Turn left
along Padre Aguirre to the ramshackle
clothes market on Plaza San Francisco
and the peach-and-white Iglesia San
Francisco . Five blocks west on a quiet
square is the seventeenth-century Iglesia
San Sebastián . Opposite is the Museo de
Arte Moderno (Mon-Fri 9am-1pm &
3-6.30pm, Sat 9am-1pm; free), which
houses temporary exhibitions of Latin
American modern art.

Sombrero (Mon-Fri 9am-6pm, Sat
9.30am-5pm, Sun 9.30am-1.30pm; free)
where you can learn about the process of
making Panama hats, which originated in
Ecuador. he Museo Remigio Crespo Toral
(Mon-Fri 8.30am-1pm & 3-6pm, Sat
10am-noon; free) exhibits pre-Columbian
ceramics as well as colonial and modern
art in a restored nineteenth-century house.
A couple of blocks further east, the
excellent Museo de las Culturas Aborígenes
(Mon-Fri 8.30am-6pm, Sat 9am-1pm;
$2) has an enormous collection of
pre-Hispanic artefacts - second only to
Museo Banco Central in Quito - from
Stone Age tools to Inca ceramics. Calle
Larga has three staircases, the largest
of which is La Escalinata , down to the
riverbank, pleasant for a stroll. East is
the Puente Roto (Broken Bridge), part of
a bridge that once spanned the river.

Along the Río Tomebamba
From the historic centre, head south to
the riverside, where there are several
interesting museums along Calle Larga.
Beginning at the west end is Museo del