Things to see and do Quito

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This house-museum exhibits the works of Eduardo Kingman (1913-1998), an Ecuadorian painter from Loja. It was in this former bakery (you can still see the bread oven inside the house!) that the artist set up his studio in 1969. The former professor of the School of Fine Arts of Quito spreads in his painting a remarkable expressionist character, with a particular attention paid to the chiaroscuro. He depicts with great expressiveness the conditions of the indigenous peoples, poverty, misery or oppression.

The Pichincha, commonly called Guagua (child in Quichua) Pichincha by the Quiteños, dominates the capital from its 4,776 m altitude and is part of the daily life of the inhabitants. It is still in operation, unlike its big brother, the Rucu Pichincha, located a little further south and rising to 4,696 m. It is older but slightly lower. Pinchincha is easy to discover, as a cable car links Quito to its eastern face at an altitude of 3,945 m. Its last major eruption was in 1999. Quito was covered in ash.