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Best History Destinations in Latin America

31 city guides · 3-day history itineraries

3-day city guides centred on historical sites, monuments, old quarters and untold stories.

Latin America
🇵🇾 Paraguay

Asuncion

Founding-era churches, the Panteón's war dead, the Archivos del Terror and the barrios that outlived…

Latin America
🇨🇴 Colombia

Barranquilla

Customs houses, Colombia's first railway line, a 19th-century sea fort and the immigrant arcades of …

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Belo Horizonte

From Sabará's 1701 baroque gold churches to the 1897 grid that replaced Curral del Rey — the layered…

Latin America
🇨🇴 Colombia

Bogota

Pre-Columbian ceramics, the oldest church in the city, a viceroy's house and the vase that started a…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Brasilia

From the 1892 Cruls Mission survey stone and the pioneers' shantytown church to the JK Memorial cryp…

Latin America
🇦🇷 Argentina

Buenos Aires

From the Jesuit block of 1662 and the tunnels under San Telmo to the 1810 revolution, Perón, Malvina…

Latin America
🇨🇴 Colombia

Cali

From the 1536 founding cross and Spanish sugar haciendas to the Museo del Oro Calima and the balcony…

Latin America
🇻🇪 Venezuela

Caracas

From the colonial birth-house of the Liberator to the concrete monuments of the petro-state, walked …

Latin America
🇨🇴 Colombia

Cartagena

Spanish gold routes, slave-trade tribunals and the 1811 uprising, traced through Cartagena's forts, …

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Curitiba

From the 1693 founding square and the city's oldest church to Polish log houses, the Serra do Mar ra…

Latin America
🇵🇪 Peru

Cusco

Megalithic fortresses, chronicler houses, Cusco School canvases and the palaces the conquistadors bu…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Fortaleza, Brazil

From the Dutch fort that named the city to Belle Époque cast iron, abolition decrees and the colonia…

Latin America
🇪🇨 Ecuador

Guayaquil

Archaeology halls, the oldest church in the port, the Bolívar–San Martín hemicycle and a marble city…

Latin America
🇧🇴 Bolivia

La Paz

From Tiwanaku stone gods and colonial gold-leaf churches to the lamppost where a president was hange…

Latin America
🇵🇪 Peru

Lima

From a 1,800-year-old oracle in the desert to baroque ossuaries, republican cemeteries and the fortr…

Latin America
🇦🇷 Argentina

Mar Del Plata

From the 1874 founding on Jesuit ranch land to Loire-château casinos, Basque-tiled chalets and the C…

Latin America
🇻🇪 Venezuela

Maracaibo

From the 1529 founding and the only surviving colonial house to the 1823 naval battle that ended Spa…

Latin America
🇨🇴 Colombia

Medellin

From Quimbaya goldwork and the 1682 Veracruz chapel to the Casa de la Memoria and the reconnected hi…

Latin America
🇺🇾 Uruguay

Montevideo

From the 1724 Spanish citadel and Artigas's mausoleum to the dictatorship memory museum and the drum…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Porto Alegre

From Farroupilha war relics and the Piratini Palace to Solar dos Câmara, Jewish Bom Fim and the dock…

Latin America
🇨🇱 Chile

Punta Arenas

Magellan's strait, Croatian and Yugoslav immigrant fortunes, mission archives and the frontier past …

Latin America
🇺🇾 Uruguay

Punta Del Este

Colonial forts on Isla Gorriti, Maldonado's 18th-century garrison town, Azorean San Carlos and the 1…

Latin America
🇪🇨 Ecuador

Quito

Pre-Columbian gold, cloistered convents, independence battlefields and the best-preserved colonial c…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Recife

Walk the only Dutch colonial capital in the Americas, from the 1636 synagogue and Nassau's island ci…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Rio de Janeiro

From the Portuguese royal court in exile to the Valongo slave wharf and the fall of the monarchy — R…

Latin America
🇦🇷 Argentina

Rosario

From Belgrano's 1812 riverbank battery to Che's birth flat, anarchist union halls and the grain-port…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Salvador

From the 1549 founding walls and the Jesuit gold of the Cidade Alta to the slave-trade wharves of Ci…

Latin America
🇨🇱 Chile

Santiago

From Chinchorro mummies and Valdivia's 1541 chapel to the secret detention houses and memorial walls…

Latin America
🇧🇷 Brazil

Sao Paulo

From the Jesuit hilltop where the city began in 1554 to the coffee mansions, immigrant quarters and …

Latin America
🇦🇷 Argentina

Ushuaia

From the Yámana canoe people and the Anglican mission to Argentina's Siberia — the penal colony that…

Latin America
🇨🇱 Chile

Valparaiso

From the 1559 parish church of the Barrio Puerto to the dissidents' graves, the naval crypt on Plaza…