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See Quito's illuminated historic center after dark, in a private car.
A private evening tour exploring Quito by night in a private car, when the city's colonial center is beautifully illuminated, with a flexible, customizable itinerary.
A private evening tour by car with your own guide — the itinerary is flexible, so you can ask to linger at a favorite viewpoint or plaza.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Private hotel pickup in Quito.
See Quito's historic churches and plazas lit up after dark.
Your guide shares insight into the city's history and culture as you explore safely by private car.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private evening tour exploring Quito by night in a private car, when the city's colonial center is beautifully illuminated, with a flexible, customizable itinerary. A private evening tour by car with your own guide — the itinerary is flexible, so you can ask to linger at a favorite viewpoint or plaza.
Quito's Centro Histórico isn't just old — it's historically significant in a specific way: on September 18, 1978, it became one of the very first sites UNESCO ever inscribed as a World Heritage Site, named jointly with the historic center of Kraków, Poland, in that inaugural list. The designation recognized it as one of the best-preserved and least-altered historic centers anywhere in Latin America, covering roughly 320 hectares and around 130 monumental colonial-era buildings. Seeing it after dark, with its churches and plazas lit against the night sky, is a different experience from a daytime walk through the same streets.
One of the buildings most worth lingering at is the Church of La Compañía de Jesús, which Jesuit architects began constructing in 1605 and didn't finish until 1765 — 160 years of work, inspired by two Jesuit churches in Rome. Its nave is covered almost entirely in gold leaf and gilded carvings beneath twin green-and-gold domes; sources differ widely on exactly how much gold remains today (much of it was reportedly stripped or stolen after the Jesuits were expelled from Ecuador in 1773), but there's no disagreement that it's among the most richly decorated church interiors in the Americas.
The artistry inside Quito's churches comes from a real local tradition: the Escuela Quiteña, or Quito School, a colonial-era movement of religious painting and sculpture that flourished through the 1600s and 1700s. Spanish friars trained Indigenous and mestizo artists — among them Bernardo de Legarda and the Indigenous sculptor Caspicara — who went on to give saints and virgins distinctly Andean features, and famously rendered the Holy Spirit as a condor rather than the usual dove. It's part of why Quito's churches read as something more layered than a straightforward copy of Spanish Baroque architecture.
Because the route is flexible and done by private car, your guide can slow down at whichever plaza or church facade catches your eye rather than keeping to a fixed loop — useful on a night tour, when the best views often depend on where the light happens to be hitting a particular bell tower or dome at that moment.
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