martes, 26 de junio de 2012

The historic center of Lima is one of the most important tourist destinations of Peru, is mainly made for the fencing areas of Lima and the Rimac district. The city of Lima, capital of Peru, was founded by Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro on January 18, 1535 under the name of Ciudad de los Reyes, however, persisted over time its original name seems to come from the language Aymara (lime-limaq or yellow flower) or Rimaq Quechua, meaning "talkative", so loud at its river, the Rimac. In the first maps of Peru can be viewed together with the name of the Lima City of Kings.
The facade of the house Osambela is neoclassical, reminiscent of the Rococo. Sample 5 balconies, Louis XVI style, decorated with garlands and accompanied by 3 balconies sill. At the top is a gazebo covered by a small dome silhouette Muslim.  On it the great scholar of Lima, architect Hector Velarde, said:  "Although the house was completed between 1803 and 1805 in its present form, the eighteenth-century architecture remains perfectly still and looks much of the finery of Louis XVI and reminiscences of Louis XV; cover with neoclassical pilasters with garlands Ionic capitals, typical of the style, arch in segment of a circle, perillones cup shape flowers, overlapping central entry openings on three floors with plastic and vertical continuity of low relief in the French manner. It is remarkable that this sense of verticality is accentuated even more by the lookout, as Lima, who tops and exalted, by contrast, and so eloquently, broad and horizontal rhythm of the facade. That minaret, covered by a small dome silhouette Muslim, it seems that the first owner of the house, the Spanish banker Osambela binoculars watched the entrance of the galleons to Callao ... ".

lunes, 25 de junio de 2012

Shrine was called for at that place is where born and lived Isabel Flores de Oliva, Santa Rosa de Lima, now a religious complex with a beautiful temple and monastery located in the first block of Avenida Tacna. The sanctuary was built in the year 1728, near the birthplace of Santa Rosa de Lima on April 30, 1586, his parents were Gaspar Flores, a native of Puerto Rico, a simple man of few financial means serving in the company of musketeers (security was viceroy) and Maria de Oliva, a Creole lady. Rosa was baptized with the name of Isabel Herrera on May 15, 1586 at the Church of San Sebastian, where he was baptized San Martin de Porres.


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