City Tour Granada
City Tour Managua
City Tour Leon
Ruins of Leon Viejo
Zapatera

City Tour Granada

San Francisco Convent and Church
Founded in 1524, houses archeological treasures from Isla Zapatera, a primitive art exhibit and historical display.
Transport by horse - drawn carriages.

Cemetery
Enormous colonial graves.
Tombs more than 400 years old with marble statues.

La Polvora Fort
A warehouse built in 1748 to keep gunpowder.
You will visit its old towers, which give you a nice view of the city.

Xalteva Church and Walls.
Here the Spaniards met the Xalteva Indian population, from which it got its name. This is the most antique part of Granada. The church was during the colonial times and because of its location, it was used as a military fort as well.

Price: U$ 20 each, all included.
Duration: 3 hours.
Departure time: 9:00 AM
Minimum: 2 persons.

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City Tour Managua

City tour Managua

- Visit the Central Park
- Old Cathedral
- National Palace
- Downtown destroyed area by the earthquake of 1972
- Tiscapa Lagoon
- Footprints of Acahualinca (more than 12,000 years old)
- Park Sandino, ruins of the old presidential palace of Somoza family
- Optional canopy tour at crater lake Tiscapa.

Minimum two persons.
Price US$ 55 each

Includes:
- transport Granada – Managua – Granada
- All entrance fees
- Bilingual guide
- Nicaraguan style lunch
 

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City Tour Leon

Tour of the Ruins of Leon and Leon city tour, 1 night/ 2 days
Included:
Day 1:
- Transport Granada or Managua – Ruins of Leon
- Tour trough the Ruins
- Amazing views on Mombotombo Volcano at Puerto Mombotombo
- Lunch at La Paz Centro
- Transport to Leon
- Overnight in the center of Leon
Day 2:
- Leon city tour
- Lunch
- Transport to Granada or Managua

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Ruins of Leon Viejo

Ruins of Leon:
León Viejo is one of the oldest Spanish colonial settlements in the Americas. It did not develop and so its ruins are outstanding testimony to the social and economic structures of the Spanish Empire in the 16th century. Moreover, the site has immense archaeological potential.
Old Leon was set by Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba en 1524, same person who settled Granada. The city was abandoned en 1610, probably because of several natural disasters, as well a lack of Indigenous people whose labor could be exploited. The ruins where found in 1967 by the National University Leon and recognized in 2000 by UNESCO as a cultural site of international significance.
Many of the buildings that have been excavated and stabilized are along the main avenue leading west from the main plaza, where the statue of Hernandez de Córdoba and crypt are. Walking along the main avenue, you pass the old mint, the church and the governor’s house. At the far end of the avenue are the convent and church of the Merced order of nuns.
Justification for Inscription to Unesco’s world heritage list in 2000.
Criterion iii the ruined town of León Viejo provides exceptional testimony to the material culture of one of the earliest Spanish colonial settlements. Criterion iv The form and nature of early Spanish settlement in the New World, adapting European architectural and planning concepts to the material potential of another region, are uniquely preserved in the archaeological site of León Viejo.
We end the day by checking in at our hotel in the center of Leon.

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