A Little Book of Quito: Forty Reflections on Volcanoes, Stone, Memory and Daily Life: 70 - Softcover

Morales, Raúl

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798175805254

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Quito gathers in a narrow Andean basin beneath Pichincha, a city of steep streets, volcanic light, church bells and neighbourhoods that climb wherever the ground allows. Its historic centre preserves extraordinary architecture, but the living capital extends far beyond any postcard.

A Little Book of Quito enters Ecuador's capital through forty concise, researched reflections. Move from Indigenous ground, the colonial plazas and the Quito School to independence on the slopes of Pichincha; walk through San Francisco, La Compañía, La Ronda, San Roque and Mercado Central; and encounter locro, fanesca, colada morada, football, Ciclopaseo, the Trolebús and the new Metro. Along the way, the book follows buried ravines, volcanic ash, railways, public memory, the equator, the Chocó Andino and the páramo water systems that sustain life at altitude.

Written for travellers, readers and lovers of layered cities, this is not a conventional guidebook but an intimate literary portrait of Quito: a capital where stone preserves authority, daily life rewrites memory and the mountains are never merely a view.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798175805254
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88