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Visit the National Library, open to visitors.\r\n\r\nLearn about the country's past at the MUNA, the national anthropology museum, and see Salvadoran art at MARTE.\r\n\r\nDrive up to El Boquer\u00f3n National Park to walk around the volcano's crater, and visit Joya de Cer\u00e9n, where houses and gardens were preserved under ash. 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