Cajamarca

Some attractiveness of the departmental capital are: The Square of Weapons, one of the widest and of more historical value. It is located on the old square, the place where the Inca Atahualpa was executed. The Cathedral, is located to the side of the Square of Weapons, it was built in the XVIII century. Their facade is of Baroque current, with columns, arabesque, cornices and niches. Their bigger altar is made in its entirety of bread of gold.

The Church San Francisco is part of the convent of the same name. It possesses valuable iconography pieces and religious paintings. The Museum of Colonial Religious Art is in their interior.

The Group Monumental Nativity whose construction dates of the XVII and XVIII centuries, is a colonial historical monument of the Spanish American Baroque art. With a frontis and a dome carved in quarry stone. The Combined Nativity understands a church, the old hospital of women and men, the Room of the Rescue and a Museum. The Church of the Recoleta was built in the century 17, and it is located in San Sebastian's neighborhood. With a sober facade carved in stone and stressed by slender reed-maces in triple arch.

The Room of the Rescue is the main monument that he/she remembers the arrival of the Spaniards and its encounter with the native of the Peru.

It was the place where he/she stayed captive to the Inca Atahualpa who offered a room full with gold and two of silver to get their freedom, fact that completed but, equally it was sacrificed by the Spaniards.