El Parque de la Exposicion, Lima
This sunday afternoon I have been at home in the casa reading about the 19th century history of Lima and looking through some amazing old fotos from the archives of both Courret & Eduardo Dargent Chamot, (whilst drinking italian coffee and a special treat chocolat!).
The Palacio de la Exposicion (Julio 1872) now houses the Museo de Artes, in the grounds of the Parque de la Exposicion. El presidente at the time, Jose Balta (1868-72) and the city of Lima were embracing the industrial boom (of guano) and in modernisation wanting to progress alongside cities such as London, Paris and Madrid. The Palacio de la Exposicion was used in the same way as Crystal Palace in 1851 to hold the Gran Exposicion. In the 1860's Lima had dropped its colonial street names and tried to emphasise the new Republic, at the same time Paris was revolutionising its own street planning with Hausmann's new boulevards.
El Pabellon del Presidente, 1872 (or the Glorieta Presidencial del Parque de la Exposicion). El Presidente Balta re-established constitutional rule, granted a monopoly of guano export to a french company and oversaw the new railroads. His overspending on many public and engineering works and borrowing large loans from Europe brought the country to the brink of economic collapse and in 1872 he was desposed and shot!
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