In the villages of Cera and Cachipamba women still shape clay pots, jugs and plates by hand.
Taquil parish, in the north-west of Loja canton, is a land of women potters. In its villages of Cera and Cachipamba women shape clay pots, jugs and plates by hand, with techniques passed down from generation to generation.
Visiting a workshop means watching a piece come to life from the clay, and taking home a handicraft with a story. The route continues to Taquil church and the heritage village of Chuquiribamba.
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The museum of Ecuador’s “music capital”, in the old Bernardo Valdivieso school: scores, instruments and the memory of its composers.
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Art, archaeology and ethnography of the province in a republican-era building on the Central Park.
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Religious art from the 16th to 18th centuries in the convent of the Conceptionist Sisters, half a block from the Central Park.
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