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Tourist Information of Tacna, Peru
-A border city to Arica, Chile
-Tacna, a city with heroes of WW2
Peru's most southerly settlement in the desert, a city which is located quite close to the border to Chile. Today Tacna is a mostly commercial city with Chilean shoppers.
There are some small museums which have exhibitions of the war.
The center of the city is a plaza, Paseo Civico, every Sunday it holds a ceremony of a march to show their patriotism.
For the tourists, around the plaza and a street, Av. Bolognesi is the main tourist area. To walk around, it takes about 1 hour.
