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Quito The history of this beautiful colonial city, full of legends woven over more than 400 years, is still alive in the memory of its inhabitants. To find its origin it is necessary to go back in time to the 6th of December in 1534, when the Spanish conquistadors founded the city with 204 settlers. Before then, the present-day site of Quito was inhabited by the Quitus, a tribe from the Quechua civilization in a strip of land that stretched from what is now Cerro del Panecillo in the south to Plaza de San Blas in the center. Called the Kingdom of Quito in the Pre-Hispanic period, buildings in this ancient city were made of carved stone and sun-dried brick. Later, Spanish architects incorporated the same materials into their grandiose constructions. At the beginning of the 16th century, the city adopted a monumental style with the construction, by the various Catholic missions, of the impressive temples of San Francisco, Santo Domingo, La Catedral and San Agustin. The main events during this period took place in or around these temples, which helped promote religiousness among the people.
Location
We are located in the old center of Quito surrounded by the most amazing arquitecture and people.
- Address: Olmedo 432 y los Rios Quito-Ecuador-Sudamerica
- 593-2-316-3350
- 593-9-9516687
A little bit of Quito's History:
Quito According to a legend of the pre-Inca Quitu tribe, the city of Quito was founded by Qitumbe, son of the god Quitu, in honour of his father. It is known that the valley that would eventually cradle Quito was originally occupied by the Quitu tribe, who united with the Cara from the north into the Shyris nation around AD 1300. In 1487 the Inca took over and turned the city into an important northern nexus of their empire. Within a hundred years the empire fell to infighting, leaving things wide open for the newly arrived Spanish to start almost from scratch. Sebastian de Benalcazar founded Santiago de Quito on 15 August 1534, and all was well until Pedro de Alvarado arrived after a long, hard march and expressed his, shall we say, disappointment that the city had been started without him. The two arranged a truce in which the city was refunded on 6 December as San Francisco de Quito. In the beginning Quito consisted only of the present-day Old Town at the foot of El Panecillo. An art school founded in 1535 put the burgh closer to becoming a centre of religious art during the colonial period, complete with its own style, the Quito School. Through its history Quito has been an administrative, rather than a manufacturing, centre. By the mid-20th century the city had spread north into what is called New Town today. A population boom, aided by the discovery of oil, brought thousands of immigrants, who settled south of Old Town and west up the slopes of Pichincha. By the mid-1980s these makeshift suburbios counted as much as 15% of the city's population and had acquired most of the services the older areas took for granted. Today the city counts at least 1.2 million residents (officially), with more cramming in every day.
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