Lima
LIMA, more than 400 years, was named City of the Kings by the conquistador Francisco Pizarro. Today, that same city that emerged on the lands of indigenous cacique Taulichusco is a metropolis of over 7 million inhabitants, which proudly retains its convents and colonial symbols of their ancient and noble tradition.
Founded on January 18, 1535, Lima, the capital of Peru, is a modern city in constant growth, but has maintained that while the richness of its historical center, declared by UNESCO as World Cultural Heritage, for being a charming haven of a bygone era, filled incomparable artistic monuments.
The cathedral, which began to be built on the same day of the founding of the city, the Church and Convent of San Francisco, considered by its unit volume and color the whole of Latin America most successful architectural and Santo Domingo, with a beautiful main cloister are just some of the jewels of incalculable value of the old Lima.
And as the churches of Lima showed the faith of its people, the Limean Casonas, such as the Casa Aliaga, built on the worship curaca Taulichusco; House Goyoneche or Rada, with a clear French influence, and the Palacio de Torre Tagle, the most beautiful mansion of the early eighteenth century, symbolizes the splendor and pomp of colonial life.
Located on the banks of the River Rimac, and caressed by the waters of the Pacific, Lima is also evidence of the period of pre-Hispanic times, the most important being the great sanctuary of Pachacamac, which worship the God of the same name and the huaca Pucllana in the district of Miraflores, an important administrative center of Lima culture (400 AD).
Because of its indigenous roots of which inherited its name comes from the Aymara word lima-LIMAC-Huayta LIMAC or designating a yellow flower, or quechua Rimac, which means its colonial past-talker that he instilled his faith, his playing of modernity that projected into the future, and its festive color to your everlasting gray sky, Lima, always will be, the City of Kings.
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