Doña Chepa Aplanchados
Aplanchados Doña Chepa
A long-established pastry shop next to Mora Castilla that has spent decades making aplanchados, Popayán's traditional flattened pastry.
The original shop is at Calle 2 #4-46 in the old town, near the Humilladero bridge and beside Mora Castilla. It occupies the former home of Josefina Muñoz, known as Doña Chepa, who has been making aplanchados for about seventy years with a recipe that has barely changed. An aplanchado is a flattened, baked layered pastry topped with icing and is a popular local souvenir. The shop is small, so you buy and go or eat standing up, and prices are very low. There are branches in Río Blanco and El Recuerdo, but visitors usually head to the original shop in the old town.
Opening hours
About 8:00–17:30
Nearby sights
- Casa Museo Mosquera
- Casa Museo Guillermo Valencia
- Puente del Humilladero
- Museo Arquidiocesano de Arte Religioso
- Iglesia de Santo Domingo & Universidad del Cauca
- Pueblito Patojo
- Museo de Historia Natural
- Panteón de los Próceres