Cathedral of Quito · photo: Ángel M. Felicísimo, CC BY-SA 4.0

Self-guided walking tour of Quito

41 sights · Ecuador · capital

Tell us what you like and how much time you have, and you get a walking route past the best sights of Quito, with a map and thumbs-up from other visitors. Free, no account needed.

The route planner itself is in Dutch for now; the map and the route work the same.

What is there to see?

• Architecture (15)
• Museums (14)
• Parks & green (6)
• History (6)
• Squares & streets (2)

3-hour walk past the highlights of Quito

9 stops · 3.7 km · a loop from the centre with time to look around at each stop. Want to go inside somewhere? Set a longer stay in the route planner.

1. Photo: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0
   🚶 1 min walkIglesia de El Sagrario
2. Photo: Paula Castro, Public domain
   🚶 2 min walkSucre House
3. Photo: David Adam Kess, CC BY-SA 4.0
   🚶 5 min walkCity Museum
4. 🚶 4 min walkNumismatic Museum of Ecuador
5. Photo: Ángel M. Felicísimo, CC BY-SA 4.0
   🚶 1 min walkCathedral of Quito
6. Photo: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0
   🚶 3 min walkChurch of Saint Frinci
7. Photo: User:, CC BY-SA 4.0
   🚶 5 min walkBasilica of La Merced
8. Photo: Quito magnífico, CC BY-SA 4.0
   🚶 14 min walkBasilica of the National Vow
9. Photo: Photography, Scan and postprocessing by…, CC BY-SA 4.0
   🚶 13 min walkHistoric Center of Quito

More well-known sights in Quito

1. Parque El Ejido
2. La Capilla del Hombre
3. Quito Botanical Gardens
4. Gustavo Orcés V. Natural History Museum
5. National Museum of Ecuador
6. Sucre National Theater
7. Church of San Agustín
8. Ecuador National Museum of Medicine
9. Itchimbía
10. Virgin of El Panecillo
11. Parque La Carolina