Lonely Planet The Cities Book: A Journey Through the Best Cities in the World by Lonely Planet

Author:Lonely Planet
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781787011663
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Published: 2017-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

STARRING ROLE IN…

• La Teta Asustada (2009)

IMPORT

• Chinese food (locally known as chifa)

EXPORT

• Ceviche

• Mario Testino

• Isabelle Allende

• Teófilo Cubillas

SEE pre-Columbian masterpieces, from sublime tapestries to intricate goldwork at Museo Larco.

EAT anticuchos, (tender beef-heart skewers) from a street cart

DRINK potent pisco cocktails at the vintage bars and chic lounges of Barranco.

DO explore sandy ruins with several civilisations’ worth of temples at Pachacamac.

WATCH paragliders hovering in the sky from Malecón, the scenic cliff-top walkway that meanders along the coast.

BUY pre-Columbian-style clay pottery or an alpaca rug at Mercado Indio.

AFTER DARK check out nightclubs that pump everything from disco to cumbia in Miraflores.

URBAN TALE

Garúa (the fog) is relentless, a mist that turns the sky an alabaster white and leaves the city draped in a melancholy pall. Interestingly, this otherworldly microclimate has been the source of much literary inspiration. The most famous citation is in none other than Moby Dick by Herman Melville, who visited Lima in the 1800s. It is ‘the strangest saddest city thou can’st see’, he wrote. ‘For Lima has taken the white veil; and there is a higher horror in this whiteness of her woe’. So why would the Spanish build the capital of their Andean empire at the one point on the coast regularly blanketed by this ghostly fog? Well, they likely wouldn’t have known. Francisco Pizarro established the city on 18 January – right in the middle of summer – when the skies are blue every day.

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