Tourist attractions

CHICLAYO ATTRACTIONS

Main park .- Located in the heart of Chiclayo, formerly was built in two sections, has a pool equipped with three water valves which give rise to three jets of water that form the flag of Peru.
Cathedral. - situated in the city's main park, construction is neo-classical and dates from 1869. The cover is of two bodies, supported by Doric columns the first is in front of three archways. The second presents Corinthian capitals, where there are balconies or bay windows. On both sides of the façade towers topped with small copulations. Inside, three bodies, highlights the beautiful carving of the Poor Christ.

City Hall. - is located right beside main park, is located on the street San Jose 823. Elegant modern building construction (1919) cost just over 30,000 pounds of gold. Republican style is with large windows and wrought iron doors.
Chapel Veronica. - Located on the street Torres Paz 294. It was built in the late nineteenth century and declared a National Historic Landmark. The altar and the high altar adjacent have a coating of silver and gold leaf.
Basilica San Antonio. - It is situated between Torres Paz Street and Avenue Luis Gonzales. San Antonio called the Discalced Fathers Chiclayo, modern architecture (1949). The main hall is quite large, has round arches and, at the high altar, stands the crucified Christ articulated polychrome wood sculpture.
Square Elias Aguirre. - Located between Elias Aguirre and San Jose Street. This was the first place he could see the passenger off the train when the train station Eten. Peruvian sculptor David Lozano, its construction dates back to 1924, and was built in honor of Commander Elias Aguirre, Chiclayo hero in the Battle of Angamos (1879). The trees that line the walls and lofts shelter people come to the place for fun feeding the birds.

Market model. - This is a place that has great commercial and human movement. There are thousands of people passing through this area during the day, Sunday is the busiest. In the strip adjacent to the street Arica you can buy lots of herbs and medicinal preparations used by shamans and healers in their traditional "healing tables" in this place you can contact one of these healers.

Monsefu. - Costumbrist city located 18 miles from downtown Chiclayo. Famous for its food, traditions and hospitality of its people. Vibrant district full of personalides who have made numerous contributions to the community lambayecana. Is the main source of local customs and identity and is considered as the source of tradition, taste and culture of the region. His most significant contribution to the identity lambayecana is summarized in the annual event called FEXTICUM, created in 1973 by Professor Limberg Chero Ballena.

OTHER ATTRACTIONS OUTSIDE THE CITY

ZAÑA

Almost buried in the sand, the ruins of strong walls, columns, temple galleries, and colonial houses.

These ruins belong to the opulent colonial city of Zaña, whose destruction is attributed to a divine punishment, due to the dissolute life and orgies of the population.

SIPAN

Near the town of Sipan, 35 km from Chiclayo, you can find the archeological complex of Huaca Rajada, the place where the funeral chambers containing Señor de Sipán, an important regional leader, was discovered by a group of Peruvian archeologists led by Walter Alva in July 1987. Its rests - accompanied by gorgeous jewels and golden ornaments - can be admired in the Museum of Royal Tombs of Señor de Sipan.

SICAN

It is located 45 km North East of Chiclayo.
Culture that emerged in the Lambayeque region around the year 750 a.D., whose ancestors were the Moche or Mochica cultures, and the contemporary cultures of Cajamarca, Wari and Pachacamac.
The legacy of the Sican culture includes its distinctive ideology and artistic style, sophisticated work technologies in ceramic and metals that are used as models even today.

TUCUME

Tucume, located 33 km North of Chiclayo, is a privileged town because of its cultural patrimony; it has the biggest concentration of sun-dried clay brick pyramids in Peru and America.
The visit to Tucume allows us to appreciate 26 pyramids around a sacred mountain and to be in touch with its fertile countryside, full of corn, rice, carob tree and cane fields; and with its nice people, heritors to indigenous and Spanish blood.

ECOLOGICAL SITES

The Bosque of Pomac (Pomac Woods), National Ecological Reserve, has an extension of 134 km2.
It is a woody area, ecologically unique, where carob trees, Cassies, sapodillas and vichayos grow. It is common to find this vegetation along the coastal deserts, and here you can find it in its greatest abundance.

CHAPARRI

Chaparri belongs to the city of Chongoyape, 70 km from Chiclayo. In this community there are abundant natural resources and this turns it into an Ecological Reserve.
It is intended to preserve the dry woods in the area and the rich biodiversity, which is very much threatened by illegal felling and the extraction of fauna species with commercial purposes, as is the case of the Andean condor and the "spectacled" bear.

MUSEUMS

ROYAL TOMBS OF SIPAN LORD

Located in the city of Lambayeque, 15 minutes from the city of Chiclayo, the visitor will be able to find all the information and archeological testimony of the Mochica people and travel to that dream era, learning the history and magnitude of our past through each jewel, each ornament and each piece, which explains the way we are.

BRUNNING MUSEUM

Located two blocks from the Main Park in Lambayeque, 15 km from the city of Chiclayo.
More than 1400 archeological pieces that date back ten thousand years and are legacy of the Lambayeque, Moche, Chavín, and Inca cultures, are shown in its corridors.

SICAN MUSEUM

Located in the province of Ferreñafe, 45 km or approximately 30 minutes from Chiclayo, this museum was built to exhibit the greatness of the Lambayeque culture and is part of a tourist circuit that includes the Huaca Rajada complex and the Pomac Woods.
This cultural place shows 2500 fine metal pieces and 200 golden pieces, with 22 years of scientific investigation.

TUCUME SITE MUSEUM

It is located 33 km North of Chiclayo. Its construction was inspired in the traditional architecture of the Lambayeque chapels. It has two rooms that show the continuity of the Lambayeque culture in the cuisine, table ware, food, textile and religious aspects.

You can also appreciate a ceramic workshop that employs ovens and reproduces techniques that are 2500 years old.

SIPAN SITE MUSEUM

Leaving Chiclayo, 28 km to the East we find the archeological complex of Sipan.

The construction of this site museum was inspired in the traditional architecture of the Lambayeque chapels. It has two rooms that show the continuity of the Lambayeque culture in the cuisine, table ware, food, textile and religious aspects.

BEACHES

PIMENTEL

It is located 20 minutes from Chiclayo. The beautiful beach resort of Pimentel, characterized by its sober architecture and friendly sea, is the meeting place for tourists and surfers, so you can appreciate, vertically standing, surf boards as well as traditional "caballitos de totora" (cattail boats).

SANTA ROSA

Leaving Pimentel to the South West, we find the small bay of Santa Rosa, picturesque population of fishermen only 5 km from Pimentel. It is the fish dispensary of Lambayeque. Its beach is a huge colorful boat parking lot.

In this place you can also appreciate how a wooden boat is made and a handmade fishing net too.

PUERTO ETEN

It is located only 23.4 km South West of Chiclayo. This port has vast beautiful beaches with different landscapes; there are sand beaches, and rock beaches. They are very much visited by locals and tourists who want to enjoy their always refreshing and clear waters, as well as by those who want to camp on the shore, practice beach sports, go fishing and extract shellfish.