Lunahuaná

[1] In Lunahuaná you can taste local dishes prepared in clay pots and wooden stoves such as: Shrimp (various styles), chola soup, duck with rice, tamales, chicharrones, adobo pork, carapulcra, pachamanca, guinea pigs and rabbits.

There is evidence that the first settlers arrived in this area between 6000 and 2000 BC However, it was during the expansion of the Inca Empire that Lunahuaná became the second largest city led by Pachacútec.

Lunahuaná was officially founded in 1821 as a market town of Don José de San Martín.

In the center of the village there is a Catholic church, situated at the main square, which was built by the Order of the Franciscans in 1690.

This winery was first founded in 2002 by Johan De La Cruz Peña, its annual production is 13,000 liters of pisco.

It is the oldest winery in Lunahuaná since 1896 and is administered by Isabel Gonzales del Valle, widow of Domingo Alvarado Reyes.

All the wineries of this district, Cañete, have tasting rooms, the latest technologies, areas of accommodation and restaurants.

An image of a well-prepared tamal of Lunahuaná