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Las Peñas, Guayaquil
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| Type: | Attraction, Culture |
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| Preference: | Family, Tourist-free, Popular |
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EditLuis Hidalgo Baquerizo and Eloy Alfaro Avilés pioneered artistic exhibitions in Las Peñas. Showing young painters and paintings from the Quito School and replica Monard, Rembrandt and Renault, each July 24 in the evening. This is just one example of the intense cultural life that has always been the neighborhood.
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| Other names: | Barrio Las Peñas, Old Cerveceria |
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| Opening Hours: | 6:00AM TO 12:00PM |
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| Public Transport: | Metrovia |
| Parking: | Malecon 2000 |
| First to Review: | Migue Edu |
Reviews
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Favorable
Attraction , $ , Outdoors Updated 681 days ago
It is one of the best places to visit in Guayaquil if you want to spend a while enjoying your stay and not only getting to picture spots. Personally it made me remind of Milan Kundera´s description of the difference between european and american parks, on the first, you have to walk, a limited speed, the importance is on the different perspective the road offers. On american parks signs indicate how long until the next particular spot. This walk is to be enjoyed as a european park, with patience and as an experience on itself, being the beautiful view from above a plus, but not the goal, if not you will suffer from the steps instead of enjoying them and stopping as much as it suits you .
Review by S. Alejandro Lira / Σ. Α. Λυρας
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Culture , Tourist-free , Popular Updated 786 days ago
Is really cool, there is an exhausted 500 steps or around but it worth it, the view from the top is just amazing and you can see all Guayaquil from there!
Review by Joshua Gutierrez
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Attraction , Tourist-free , Popular Updated 790 days ago
In las peñas, you'll find a lot of places for having fun, there is a mixture of the old and the new city... near las Peñas is also the Colon Plaza the oldest chruch in Guayaquil is located here and the fireman museum... have fun
Review by Maria Fernanda Morales Flores
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Culture , Family , Tourist-free Updated 791 days ago
The oldest place in Guayaquil, it keeps few to none remainings from colonial times since the city was burned three times, and almost all of its history got lost because of that.
Still it is a wonderful place to visit, with small streets and a light house at the top of the hill that can give you a wonderfull view of the whole city, you can walk around any time you like, you can choose what to do, there are serveral small stores an hundreds of cafeterias and bars. You can drink a cup of coffee with some "patacones" (a must if you come here) or drink a beer while smoking an habano in Diva Nicotina (one of the most popular places around there).
Down from Las Peñas you can walk around and see a mix of old buildings and totally renewed constructions, you can also go near the Imax to an artificial pond where you can feed the ducks or just relax before going any further.
Review by Iván Gabriel
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Culture , Family , Romantic Updated 796 days ago
Las Peñas is historically the most important neighborhood of Guayaquil, for though their houses have only about 100 years, its formal and structural characteristics are very similar to those of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Home to illustrious men
Each house has its own history. Here lived the famous people of politics and culture of the country, as the musician Antonio Neumane, presidents Francisco Robles, Jose Luis Tamayo, Carlos Julio Arosemena Tola, Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno, Eloy Alfaro, writer Enrique Gil Gilbert, the historian Rafael Pino Roca, the painter Manuel Rendón Seminario, Alfredo Espinosa Tamayo, Juan Montalvo, the teacher Rita Lecumberry, and even Ernesto "Che" Guevara was passing through this district and served as a pediatrician for free among the people. It was also the cradle of industrial, housewives, fishermen and sailors, characters who thrive on the daily life of the city.
Art Shows
In the late sixties, Luis Hidalgo Baquerizo and Eloy Alfaro Avilés pioneered artistic exhibitions in Las Peñas. Showing young painters and paintings from the Quito School and replica Monard, Rembrandt and Renault, each July 24 in the evening. This is just one example of the intense cultural life that has always been the neighborhood.
Review by Migue Edu
