Lima Centro: la ciudad de reyes
Calle Carabaya in the old part of downtown Lima, off the plaza de armas near the train station. Lima was founded by the spanish conquisitor Francisco Pizarro in 1535. A university opened in 1551 and Lima became the America´s seat of the Spanish Inquisition in 1569.
Art nouveau street sign. The city grew quickly and was the continent´s richest and most important town during colonial times. Following the wars of independence from Spain in the 1820´s Limas´s importance as a colonial centre faded.
The Monasterio de San Francisco, an early colonial church in Lima (17th century) and includes a convent and a square- baroque and moor influence. In 1551, the first university founded by the Spanish Crown was established in the convent, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. It holds a library of antique texts and the catacombs are home to over 70,000 burials. I can´t face the catacombs, I think I would be traumatised for the rest of my life!
The Municipalidad building (built in 1944) on the Plaza Mayor, also known as Plaza de Armas (Armas is the republican independence name but there is a return to the colonial name Mayor). A disastrous earthquake wiped out most of the city in 1746.
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oops! 1-0 !!!!!! And missed a penalty. Was stunned when Daz told me you a red devil fan now! what happened to the hammers! Lol. Silly question really. wendy got a buttered face on Saturday when she tried to jip me and Daz about the united liverpool game. bless her. Sarah a liverpool fan too. Oh well another glass of wine beckons. You take care. Ray
Uncle Ray, the reason I am a red devil was because of the traumatic abuse of having to listen to your LP's of the Liverpool team singing yellow submarine!! And to think Liverpool thought they were going to win the league this season. Have they won away from the mersey yet this season!? xx
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