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La Merced, Mariano Borja Market

In this traditional market you can find a wide variety of typical dishes of Riobamba cuisine. There is a great diversity of gastronomic offer to satisfy the palate of tourists and visitors. What should you know? It is the central market of the city of Riobamba and its main attraction is gastronomy. 120 people work in this site in different areas. There is a rich variety of fresh products, legumes, fruits and vegetables. As far as gastronomy is concerned, you can taste between traditional and typical dishes. In La Merced Market you can taste: Hornado Riobambeño. Fruit juices with the “Ice from Chimborazo” brought by the hieleros. Milk moroccan. Morocho empanadas. Pickles. Llapingachos. Jaguarlocro. Salt juice. Among other dishes of Riobambeña gastronomy. The best hornado in the world is from Riobambeño The flavor of Riobambeño hornado stands out among the proposals that from Carchi, Pichincha, Tungurahua and Azuay are offered to tourists who arrive in Ecuador. The hornado is in the market from Monday to Sunday. Riobambeño hornado is distinguished by its chiriucho: a fine juice sour flavor prepared with chicha, beer, onion and chili. In Riobamba the hornado is accompanied with mote, lettuce and tomato. Its particular chiriucho stands out, which in the Sultana de los Andes, is a "sour". Riobambeño salt juices The salt juice bears this name because it is a thick and salty drink, which contains the juice of the meat or meat stew, almost fried eggs and picadillo (crushed coriander). The ingredients are manually beaten and served hot, with a few drops of lemon, in a glass. This preparation is known as "raise dead", since it is highly recommended to combat "chuchaqui". Typically Riobambeño, this dish was born in the iconic Mercado de la Merced where Doña Luna has it available every day of the year. Break necks with ice from Chimborazo One of the greatest traditions of the central Sierra of Ecuador is, without a doubt, the famous "Riobambeño neckbreakers". They consist of natural fruit juices liquefied with ice from the Chimborazo volcano, the same one that in ancient times, due to lack of technology, was used to keep food fresh, and that today is used to refresh natural drinks. These delicious drinks are called nape breakers, due to the strong icy sensation that they cause in the head when ingesting them abruptly. It is still possible to find this juice, just as it was prepared more than a century ago, thanks to the last ice maker of Chimborazo, Baltazar Ushca, who since he was 15 years old climbs the snowy Chimborazo and with his pick and shovel, extracts the ice. Baltazar delivers the ice to the neckbreaker sellers twice a week, Tuesday and Thursday. One of the Merced vendors that stands out is Rosita Almachi with her delicious neckbreaker. Dark-haired empanadas Prepared with morocho flour, they are fried in oil and inside they contain a condumio of peas, yellow carrot, onion and meat. They are served alone or with varieties of chili and are the perfect company for a coffee. Pork cheese, hams and pickles Combined in delicious sandwiches and accompanied with a variety of fruit juices, pork and pork cheeses have been served since the last century at the Fuente de Bar Hugos, located outside La Merced.

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Post office building of Ecuador in Riobamba

A work that shows the architectural majesty of the city, and when passing near it you can appreciate an aristocratic tint in its details that have survived to the present day. What should you know? At the beginning of the 20th century, agricultural, commercial and industrial activities in Riobamba reached their splendor stage. In 1923 the Chimborazo Banking Society commissioned the design and construction of the Riobamba Post Office building to the brothers Natale and Luca Tormen, Italian architects. Currently, Correos del Ecuador occupies this building, which has become one of the most beautiful heritage jewels in the city. The mail boom was very important between the 50s and 70s of the 20th century; It was a Riobambeño tradition to go to this place to post or receive letters. Famous were the days of the post office, full of anecdotes and good times for Riobambeño society. It is the starting point for a tour of traditional ice cream parlors in the city: Helados de Paila de la Merced, where traditional ice creams are offered, made in a pan that rests on an ice basket and the Ice cream chocolates, made with milk cream and dipped in a chocolate coating. Attention schedule: Mails of Ecuador From Monday to Friday from 08:00 to 17:00, without closing at noon. Heritage Management Directorate of GADM Riobamba From 8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the morning and from 2:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the afternoon.

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Riobamba House Museum

In the Casa Museo de Riobamba, artistic samples of painting, documentary festivals and permanent exhibitions of various artistic genres are presented to the public. What should you know? Hours of operation of the Riobamba House Museum Monday to Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 2:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Cost of admission to the House Museum of Riobamba Free entrance. Museum of the city of Riobamba The City Museum is a space for the exhibition of temporary and permanent samples of photography, painting, sculpture and contemporary art. Currently, in the Casa Museo de Riobamba, artistic painting exhibitions, documentary festivals and permanent exhibitions are presented to the public so that the public can admire them and obtain information, in order to "Recover, represent, disseminate, educate and debate the various manifestations that configure the Riobamba identity". In the House Museum there are rooms for the exhibition of temporary and permanent samples, a theater that bears the name of the illustrious Chimboracense Tomás Oleas Carrasco, historian, composer, singer-songwriter, writer and councilor of Riobamba; classrooms for oral presentations, workshops and the offices of the Department of Culture. It is located in one of the most sober and beautiful urban-architectural ensembles, in the purest Ecuadorian republican style, which testify to the splendor that the city reached during the twenties, in the last century. The House Museum was built in the 1900s by the Costales Dávalos family. In the year 1905 the Government functioned, at which time the Maldonado Park was not yet built, which is currently in front of the building. Then his son Francisco Costales who sold it to Max Tomaselli and this to Doña Carmela León last owner of the property. Attractions House Museum of Riobamba In the central patio of the house, the monument to the Birth of Venus is installed. Of singular beauty, this monument, together with the Neptune of Sucre Park and the pools of Maldonado Park, were elements chosen to decorate the city of Riobamba, and are part of its history and culture. The House Museum has large and elegant spaces that are at the service of the community, and also fulfill the purpose of becoming suitable rooms for holding meetings for artistic manifestations and permanent exhibitions. It also has rooms for itinerant and temporary exhibitions of government institutions and individuals.

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Riobamba Independence House

The meeting house for the political emancipation that took place on November 11, 1820, belonged to Don Diego Donoso in historic Riobamba. What should you know? The house is privately owned, so it does not have free entry, but its exterior architecture can be seen at any time on Primera Constituent and June 5 streets in the Historic Center of Riobamba. The patriots of the "Political Emancipation of November 11, 1820", met in the house of Don Diego Donoso, where they resolved to proclaim independence from the power of the Spanish government, drafted the act and signed it. In this house, on July 4, 1822, the reception was given to Simón Bolívar on his first visit to Riobamba. In August and September 1830 it was the residence of General Juan José Flores, while the first Constituent Congress was being held. This house is one of the most historic in Riobamba and at its entrance there is a plaque where the names of the patriots are perpetuated. The house owned by Eleodoro Castro was built on this site. The beautiful building has a neoclassical style, wide corridors and rooms, with low ceilings and baroque-style stucco. The Castro family, of Guayaquil descent, built the houses that complete the block of Primera Constituent Street between 5 de Junio and Espejo. The main attraction of the house is the Plaque placed for the centenary of the Political Emancipation of Riobamba where the name of the main characters who participated in that act of Independence appears. The independence of Riobamba On November 11, 1820, the Riobambeños, under the principles of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, expressed their desire for emancipation from the Spanish Empire. Although they did not achieve the success of their desire, the Riobambeños did not give up and achieved their independence on April 21, 1822, opening the way so that on May 24, 1822, in the Battle of Pichincha, Ecuador will achieve its definitive independence. The Battle of Riobamba, also known as the Battle of Tapi, staged a momentous battle between the royalist armies and the independence movements. Transcendental position that raised a brilliant cavalry strategy in the American War of Independence. Under the command of General de Ayacucho, the libertarian troops in the midst of heavy rain harassed the Spanish troops, who gave ground while staying on the defensive, behind their cavalry. General Sucre ordered Sergeant Major Juan de Lavalle to reconnoiter the land with 96 grenadiers, between Argentines and dragoons. Unexpectedly, Lavalle faced the Spanish cavalry, who had no choice but to retreat and seek refuge in the mass of Spanish infantry. Lavalle seeing the eminent simultaneous fight against the Spanish infantry and cavalry, undertook the retreat, but it was too late, quickly the royalist cavalry reorganized and at a great gallop launched against Lavalle and his Argentine grenadiers. The crash was fierce and bloody. But it was the audacity, the aggressive spirit, the intrepidity and the initiative, which allowed Lavalle to give a favorable turn to that disadvantageous situation in which he unexpectedly found himself. He assumed all the risks, by his commanding action, always sustained by his personal example, he dragged the timid and doubtful by convincing them and the brave by inflaming them until they achieved victory. The balance was 52 dead and 42 wounded on the Spanish side and no more than 5 among the grenadiers, who achieved glory that morning. So hard was the blow that in the Tapi plain, the libertarians favored the royalist cavalry, which was annulled. Deserved was the decoration that Bolívar himself gave Lavalle and his soldiers, naming them as Grenadiers of Riobamba, Grenadiers of Tapi. Gen. Sucre, in his official part on April 23, does deserved justice to Sergeant Major Juan Lavalle by expressing: Send the Squad of Grenadiers and Dragoons to a reconnaissance a short distance from the Villa de Riobamba, the Squad of Grenadiers was found in front of all the enemy cavalry and their Chief had the elegant audacity to charge and scatter them, with an intrepidity that there will be rare examples. His Commander has led his body into combat, with heroic courage, with admirable serenity, and his officers have distinguished themselves particularly "

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Riobamba SRI Building

It remains imposing with its architectural style and due to its extension it can be seen from afar as if it were a majestic mansion of yesteryear. What should you know? Its neoclassical architecture exhibits delicate lowered arches. Riobamba SRI building The house belonged to the family of Raúl Vela Chiriboga, Ecuadorian Cardinal, a priest who has held high office in the Church. The house was also the headquarters of the "Empresa de Luz y Fuerza Eléctrica de Riobamba", of the Banco de Préstamos and currently belongs to the Internal Revenue Service. Schedule It is open from Monday to Friday from 08:00 to 16:00

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Riobamba Government Building

The beauty of its neoclassical architecture highlights the balconies on strong corbels, the lowered and semicircular arches of the building. What should you know? It is open from Monday to Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. The beauty of its neoclassical architecture highlights the balconies on strong corbels, the lowered and semicircular arches of the building. Government Building This building forms a single complex with the Municipal Palace; built in 1892, it has wide and high walls, neoclassical style. On the ground floor there is a spacious portal with interspersed columns, wide lowered and semicircular arches, as well as sober balconies supported by strong corbels. The old facade had two roofs on the sides, with two falls, similar to the facade of the Municipal Palace and in the center of the roof there was a clock. For a long time it was the site of the Civil Registry. Currently, the Government represents the Executive Power in the province, the Chimborazo Police General Intendancy of the Ministry of the Interior and the offices of the National Heritage Institute.

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