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Best Culture Destinations in Latin America

31 city guides · 3-day culture itineraries

3-day city guides focused on museums, galleries, performing arts and local creative scenes.

Latin America
🇵🇾 Paraguay

Asuncion

Indigenous feather work and Chaco photography, a rebuilt 1889 opera house, and the painted alleys of…

Latin America
🇨🇴 Colombia

Barranquilla

Modernist churches, a riverside contemporary art bunker, live mapalé rehearsals and the Afro-Caribbe…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Belo Horizonte

Niemeyer's first curves, Inhotim's forest galleries, a jaw-dropping natural history museum and the s…

Latin America
🇨🇴 Colombia

Bogota

Colombia's capital through its museum halls, colonial architecture, concert stages and street-art wa…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Brasilia

Niemeyer's museum dome, Murano-glass sanctuaries, Brazil's oldest instrumental music and Ceilândia's…

Latin America
🇦🇷 Argentina

Buenos Aires

Malba's Latin American canon, the Colón's seven-tier horseshoe, Borges-haunted bookshops and the scu…

Latin America
🇨🇴 Colombia

Cali

Concrete pavilions above the río Cali, the 1545 adobe chapel where the city began, a Salmona-designe…

Latin America
🇻🇪 Venezuela

Caracas

Soto and Cruz-Diez in the streets, Villanueva's UNESCO campus, and a Botero-to-Reverón museum quarte…

Latin America
🇨🇴 Colombia

Cartagena

Gold-museum zenú metalwork, Rafael Núñez's Teatro Adolfo Mejía, Getsemaní muralists and San Basilio'…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Curitiba

Engraving museums, a symphony hall in a quarry, and the Polish-Ukrainian-Italian neighbourhoods that…

Latin America
🇵🇪 Peru

Cusco

Colonial mestizo-baroque canvases, contemporary Andean galleries, master weavers and a nightly folkl…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Fortaleza, Brazil

Postmodern art complexes, a rebuilt 1970s theatre, cordel print workshops and the mangue-beat murals…

Latin America
🇪🇨 Ecuador

Guayaquil

Pre-Columbian ceramics, Quito School gilding, a river-facing contemporary art museum and the bolero …

Latin America
🇧🇴 Bolivia

La Paz

Baroque palaces on Plaza Murillo, Diablada mask galleries, folklore peñas on cobbled Calle Jaén and …

Latin America
🇵🇪 Peru

Lima

Gilded colonial mansions in the Centro, contemporary art and beaux-arts collections in Barranco, Moc…

Latin America
🇦🇷 Argentina

Mar Del Plata

Chalet-style mansions, Argentina's oldest summer theatre circuit and a museum scene built on sea cap…

Latin America
🇻🇪 Venezuela

Maracaibo

Contemporary galleries, the Baralt's velvet interior, gaita rehearsals and the painted-house streets…

Latin America
🇨🇴 Colombia

Medellin

Antioquian modernism, a purpose-built symphony hall, MAMM's steel-mill galleries and the graffiti br…

Latin America
🇺🇾 Uruguay

Montevideo

Torres-García's grids, backstage at Teatro Solís, carnival drums and a national art collection that …

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Porto Alegre

Iberê Camargo's concrete ramps, the Theatro São Pedro's gilded horseshoe, Cidade Baixa murals and th…

Latin America
🇨🇱 Chile

Punta Arenas

Wool-fortune mansions, Salesian mission collections, Croatian immigrant halls and a theatre named fo…

Latin America
🇺🇾 Uruguay

Punta Del Este

Marble in the dunes, a free Dalí courtyard, Spanish dragoon barracks and a wave-shaped bridge — the …

Latin America
🇪🇨 Ecuador

Quito

Pre-Columbian ceramics, Quito School gilding, Guayasamín's Capilla del Hombre and the arthouse block…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Recife

Ricardo Brennand's armour collection, Francisco Brennand's ceramic garden, Capiba's frevo archives a…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Rio de Janeiro

Niemeyer curves, Portinari murals, Brazil's grandest opera house and the living samba culture of Pra…

Latin America
🇦🇷 Argentina

Rosario

Rationalist art museums, a converted silo tower on the Paraná, a 1904 opera house and the antique-de…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Salvador

Modernist canvases at MAM-BA, sacred Candomblé collections, Bahian orchestral seasons and the atelie…

Latin America
🇨🇱 Chile

Santiago

Pre-Columbian gold, Neruda's shipwrecked houses, Bellas Artes marble and the open-air murals of Barr…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Sao Paulo

Brutalist landmarks, Afro-Brazilian collections, cutting-edge theatre and the studio-lined lanes whe…

Latin America
🇦🇷 Argentina

Ushuaia

Penal-colony art wings, Nordic kit houses, Selk'nam dioramas and late-night Patagonian folk at the b…

Latin America
🇨🇱 Chile

Valparaiso

Open-air mural routes, an art nouveau fine arts palace, a prison turned cultural park and the centur…