Sights in Tacna
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Museo Ferroviario & el Parque de la Locomotora
This museum located inside the train station – just ring the bell at the southern gates – gives the impression of stepping back in time. You can wander amid beautiful though poorly maintained 20th-century steam engines and rolling stock, plus atmospheric salons filled with historic paraphernalia, including a curious collection of international postage stamps, all to the tune of the lonely tap-tapping of the stationmaster’s ancient typewriter.
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Museo Ferroviario
The Museo Ferroviario is located inside the train station - just ring the bell at the southern gates - gives the impression of stepping back in time. You can wander amid beautiful though poorly maintained 20th-century steam engines and rolling stock, plus atmospheric salons filled with historic paraphernalia, including a curious collection of international postage stamps, all to the tune of the lonely tap-tapping of the station master's ancient typewriter.
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Plaza de Armas
Tacna's main plaza, Plaza de Armas, which is studded with palm trees and large pergolas topped by bizarre mushroom-like bushes, is a popular meeting place and has a patriotic flag-raising ceremony every Sunday morning. The plaza, famously pictured on the front of Peru's S/100 note, features a huge arch - a monument to the heroes of the War of the Pacific. It is flanked by larger-than-life bronze statues of Admiral Grau and Colonel Bolognesi.
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Museo Histórico Regional
If the tiny Museo Histórico Regional is closed, ask someone in the library below to open it. The main exhibit deals with the War of the Pacific, and features paintings and maps. There’s also a small collection of art and archaeological pieces.
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El Parque de la Locomotora
About a 15-minute walk south of the train station, a British locomotive built in 1859 and used as a troop train in the War of the Pacific is the centerpiece of El Parque de la Locomotora, an otherwise empty roadside park.
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Museo de Zela
The small, musty Museo de Zela provides a look at the interior of one of Tacna’s oldest colonial buildings, the Casa de Zela. It houses a motley collection of 19th-century paintings of stately folk.
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Boca del Río
Tacna's main seaside resort is Boca del Río, about 50km southwest of the city. Minibuses from Terminal Bolognesi go here along a good road.
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Fountain
Near the Plaza de Armas, the 6m-high bronze fountain was created by the French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (of tower fame)
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Cathedral
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (of tower fame) designed the cathedral, noted for its fine stained-glass windows and onyx high altar.
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