WHAT TO VISIT IN THE CITY OF LA PAZ

I temper and convent of San Francisco
Their construction dates of the year 1549. The temple and the convent were built with figured stone. At the beginning of the XVIII century a storm destroyed the temple that was reconstructed later some years. The facade of the Church is of Baroque style. It was built toward 1790. The tower was built in 1885. The interior, also of Baroque style, he/she has a plant of three ships, separated with canyon vault and dome of half orange, with four windows in the cruise. Their altarpiece is famous for the fine plot of its size, treaty in bread of gold. The church also bill with a pinacoteca that presents a valuable collection of artistic works: Renaissance, manieristas, Baroque, crossbreeds, neoclassicists.
Location: Square of San Francisco.

I temper of San Pedro
It was built in 1790 after Túpac's fence Katari to the city of The Peace. The cover is of ends of the Baroque and principles of the Neoclassicist; he/she has lions and shells in the bases and in the columns, and in the floor the names of the parish priests are recorded.
Location: Square San Pedro.

I temper of the Merced
Of simple facade, the plant is of three ships separated by pilasters. On the cruise a built drum dome rises in 1832 for Manuel Sanahuja, with small windows that illuminate the altar. The pulpit, of 1690, is worked in detail showing figures and filigrees.
Location: Ingavi esq remain silent. Columbus remain silent.

I temper of Sacred Domingo
It was projected in the year 1609 by Francisco Jiménez of Singueza, but the thick work only corresponds to the XVII century. The facade is Baroque, completely worked in stone, approximately of the year 1760. He/she calls the attention the short columns salomónicas decorated with clusters of grapes. The plant of the church is of three ships. The interior was remodeled in the XIX century to the neoclassical style. It is remarkable the private chapel that possesses a coffered of Mudejar type.
Location: Ingavi esq remain silent. Yanacocha remain silent.

Church of the Carmen
The convent was founded in 1718. The facade of the temple dates of the XVIII century, where they highlight flat columns, with figured capitals of two acanthus lines. The church has a single ship, covered with a vault Gothic type canyon that contrasts with the rest that is of Baroque style. In the interior, it possesses a magnificent sacred frontal of silver of ends of the XVII century / principles of the XVIII one.
Location: Av. Ballivián esq. Columbus remain silent.

Cathedral of Our Mrs. of The Peace
It was built in the year 1831. It is of style Neoclassicist; the facade is divided in two bodies; the interior has five covers of which the power station is flanked by three Corinthian columns.
The cathedral has a museum you sacred art that is located in the street Socabaya.
Location: Square Murillo

I temper of the Recoleta
It was built in 1894 like one can see in their cover. Their style imitates to the Gothic, very in fashion in that time; the towers and needles are of classic proportions.
Location: America remain silent.

"Palacio of the Counts of Spider" Museum of the Art
It was built in 1775. The building corresponds to the late Baroque. It consists of three plants with two entrances, one to the inferior plant and another that leads to the central plant or of honor. The arcades of the three plants surround a patio covered with white and black stones in whose center is a polygonal source of alabaster. Of the central patio the perrons that lead to the plant of honor whose first steps are made of alabaster leave. The exterior are of great sobriety, standing out a cover of three bodies that was the main entrance. It is remarkable the gallery of 10 arches in figured stone. It presents an important collection of colonial painting: canvases of Gregorio Martingale, Melchor Pérez of Holguín, painters of the XIX and contemporary century.
Location: remain silent Trade esq. Socabaya remain silent.

Marries of the Marquis of Green Villa "Museum of Ethnography and Folklore"
Built in 1776 and 1790. He/she has a great cover interior with arch of half point whose jambs are decorated with a braid, of which you/they hang flowers and grenades.
The external balcony is wooden and it dates of the XVII century. It belonged to another house, demolished today. It is finely carved and it also possesses carved doors of the same time. It exposes samples of crafts, typical suits and musical instruments.
Location: Ingavi esq remain silent. Jenaro remain silent Sanjinéz.

Museum House of Murillo
It is the protomartyr's gift house Pedro Domingo Murillo, agent of the revolution of July 16 1809. The house was built at the beginning of the XIX century and National Monument has been declared.
Location: Jaén remain silent Nº 79

Museum Of manners "Juan of Vargas"
Thematic retrospective exhibition. It shows the foundation of The Peace, republican time, customs, traditions and sculptures ceramic paceñas, and scale model funds in miniature.
Location: Sucre esq remain silent. Jaén remain silent.

Coast museum
Dedicated to the war of the Pacific. Trophies of war, maps, rescued warlike implementos of the battle field.
Location: Sucre remain silent Nº 77889 esq. Jaén remain silent.
Museum of Before Columbus Beautiful Metals
Beautiful house that it dates of the XIV century. He/she has two plants and three patios in difference with having paved classified. It possesses a rich collection of before Columbus objects in different rooms.
Location: Jaén remain silent Nº 79

Archaeological museum Tiwanaku
Been founded in 1922 by the archaeologist Arturo Posnansky, it has lithic pieces, ceramic, and other samples of the culture of Tiwanaku and of old autochthonous cultures.
Location: Tiwanaku remain silent Nº93 esq Federico he/she remains silent Suazo.

Museum of Musical Instruments of Bolivia
It presents the most complete collection in percussion instruments, rope and wind of the different regions of Bolivia.
Location: Linares esq remain silent. Sagárnaga remain silent.

Market of Witches
This singular market is in the old helmet of the city amid the colonial streets Sagárnaga and Linares. It takes that name because in him healing and traditional elements of the Culture Callawaya is expended.
Location: remain silent Sagárnaga and Linares.