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Guápulo
If you follow Avenida 12 de Octubre up the hill from the Mariscal, you'll reach the Hotel Quito at the top. Behind the hotel, stairs lead steeply down the other side of the hill to the historic neighborhood of Guápulo. The views all the way down are magnificent. Ramshackle houses stand interspersed among colonial whitewashed homes with terra-cotta-tile roofs, and the odd bohemian café makes for a welcome break.
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Monastery of Santa Catalina
Due south of San Agustín stands the Monastery of Santa Catalina, a fully functioning convent and monastery that opened to the public in 2005. Since its founding in 1592, entering nuns have spent five cloistered years in solitary cells. To this day the 20 nuns inside have only one hour to talk to each other or watch TV. But they make all sorts of natural products (shampoos, nonalcoholic wine, hand cream, elixirs and more), which you can purchase from a rotating door that keeps the nuns hidden.
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Quito Cathedral
Although not richly decorated, Quito's cathedral has had a nice fresh slap of paint and houses a bundle of religious paintings by notable artists of the Quito School. Also, keep your eyes peeled for the ornate tomb of Mariscal Sucre, the leading figure of Quito's independence, and the spot where president Gabriel García Moreno was hacked to death.
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