City Tour and Equatorial Monument:
Visit the broad avenues of the northern residential section. Continue to Independence Plaza , the Government Palace , La Catedral, El Sagrario, La Companía and San Francisco Churches. Then continue to El Panecillo, the hill that hosts a giant statue of the winged Virgin, where you will have a splendid view of all of old and new town. After that you´ll go a few miles north of Quito direct to the Equatorial Monument at latitude 0 00' 00'' which marks the place where an 18th century expedition established the exact geodesic position of the equator.