Culture and Traditions, with Quito Craft Beer Tasting

Explore a local market and its traditions. See La Capilla del Hombre, where the artist Oswaldo Guayasamin left his work to delight visitors. Then learn about the original Quito Craft Beer, where you will have the opportunity to taste the art of Quito.

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Highlights

Explore a traditional market, complete with all its charms and trinkets
Learn all there is to know from the Guayasamin Museum
Take a tour of Quinto through the history of beer

Description

Focusing on the culture and traditions of Quito, this route starts in the center-north of the city in the commercial, banking and hotel area of Modern Quito. Giving you a feel for the traditional markets of the city, you can enjoy the colorful landscape of stalls, full of fruits and vegetables from all regions of the country. Undoubtedly, this is a place full of familiar flavors, and the best opportunity to meet a variety of local consumer products that are mixed with unique items such as herbs and healing products, world-renowned roses and liquors of national production, among other things. Later visit the Guayasamín House Museum also known as “Capilla del Hombre”. One of the most important plastic artist of Ecuador in the modern era's collection is held. Here you can learn about the immense value of the artistic heritage, this artist has given to the country. Quito is recognized as the first city to brew beer in South America, in the sixteenth century, 1566 religious orders injected the beer gene in the Quiteño people, which has awakened strongly in the 21st century. On this tour, learn about the passion Quito has for beer, and with great care have crafted their beer success story. This part of the tour starts from selected hotels or at the starting point in the area of La Mariscal. Where you will walk to the first Pub located in a traditional neighborhood where a tasting will take place by a master brewer specialist. They will teach you to use all 5 senses to discover the flavors of craft beer. Then walk through the beautiful streets of the historic center until you reach the next stop, the former craft breweries of the city. Here you will continue enjoying the pleasures of beer and understand more about its processes.