Sightseeing old town San Salvador with Hugo's City Tour

The guide will describe to tourists important aspects of the history of the Cathedral, the architectural elements and the iconography inside. The visit also includes the crypt area to learn about the mausoleum and a brief biographical review of San Oscar Romero.

Touring the capital city’s founding square, tourists, through the guide, will learn about some of the most momentous events that have occurred since the beginning of the settlement to the present, the important buildings existing during colonial times, and the historical and architectural value of the properties that currently surround the site.

Inside this church visitors will find a place whose pieces of religious art in modernist style, the non-traditional distribution of its space, the multicolored and natural luminosity that this temple illuminates, make it a unique church of its kind. For the above reasons, it is an ideal place to take pictures and videos.

The guide gives a brief overview of the life, ideals and influence of this political and military leader in the region during the first decades after the Declaration of Independence of Central America. From that same point, the guide describes significant facts about the history of the National Theatre, located in front of the same square.

This is an ideal space for tourists to take pictures and videos of the iconic buildings located around the square. The guide refers to the political, religious and historical events that have taken place at the site, as well as the monument and other symbolic elements located there.

The tour concludes with a tour of the seven levels of the new national library, whose design, layout, services and technological resources constitute a novel concept of public library.