“Only the brave stayed the night in the Old Town. But now everyone wants to come here, the locals, tourists, and even new businesses, local and foreign, are vying to get into this part of Quito.” ...

The first “greenfield” (meaning new and built on undeveloped land ... in particular Ecuadorian roses.” As for the old Quito Airport in town? It’s not been abandoned.

Metropolitan Touring has launched four new cultural tours in Quito, the capital of Ecuador. The tour operator is refreshing its portfolio of popular excursions in Old Town Quito with guided ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Two of the first places ever listed as Unesco World Heritage sites were, perhaps surprisingly, both in Ecuador ...

The Iglesia de la Compañía de Jesús is an undisputed masterpiece of Baroque architecture in the New World ... de Quito’s namesake church is a dominant feature of the Old Town.

Erected on the ashes of an Inca city, Quito’s historic old town was founded by the Spanish in 1534 and remains one of the largest and most intact examples of colonial Spanish architecture in the ...

The Historic Centre of Quito has conserved its original configuration, new constructions being built outside of the colonial centre. Indeed, based on the first plan of Quito designed in 1734 by ...