Start from 35 curated places around Quito, EC, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Zazu
A celebrated contemporary restaurant in the new city plating refined Latin American cooking with Ecuadorian ingredients, long regarded among the country's best. The polished special-occasion dinner in Quito.
Nuema
An ambitious tasting-menu restaurant in La Floresta built on hyper-local and foraged Ecuadorian ingredients, regularly ranked among Latin America's best. The city's headline culinary experience for those who want a full event.
Trails & outdoors
TelefériQo & Rucu Pichincha
One of the world's highest cable cars, lifting you to nearly 4,000 meters on the flank of Pichincha volcano, where short walks and a demanding hike lead toward the Rucu Pichincha summit. The big-altitude adventure right above the city.
Parque Metropolitano Guangüiltagua
The city's largest park, a vast eucalyptus forest on a ridge above the new city with walking, running, and cycling trails and sweeping views toward the valley and volcanoes. A big, breezy green escape minutes from the center.
Things to do
Capilla del Hombre
A monumental museum-chapel dedicated to the work of Ecuador's most famous artist, Oswaldo Guayasamín, whose powerful paintings on humanity, suffering, and injustice fill the space, alongside his adjacent house-museum and pre-Columbian collection. The city's most moving cultural stop.
Museo Nacional del Ecuador
The country's flagship national museum, strong on pre-Columbian gold, ceramics, and the civilizations that long predate the Inca, plus colonial and republican art. The best single indoor stop for understanding Ecuador's deep past.
Landmarks & sights
La Compañía de Jesús
The most dazzling church in the city, a baroque masterpiece whose interior is sheathed almost entirely in gold leaf, earning it the name 'the Golden Church'. If you see one building in Quito's Old Town, this is it.
Basílica del Voto Nacional
A vast neo-Gothic basilica whose gargoyles are carved as Ecuadorian animals, iguanas and tortoises, and whose towers you can climb on rickety ladders and walkways for one of the best city panoramas. The climb is half the thrill.