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    The Museum of Elections and Democracy (Spanish: Museo Electoral y de la Democracia) is a museum opened in 2005 and located in the headquarters of the...
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    Convent of San Francisco and currently function as a museum. In 1546, the Franciscan order began construction of the Basilica and Convent of San Francisco...
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    decision to create the University of Lima was made in the early 1960s by a group of university professors, along with commerce and industry representatives gathered...
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    Huaca Pucllana (category Museums in Lima)
    place, sacred, pukllana game) is a great adobe and clay pyramid located in the Miraflores district of central Lima, Peru, built from seven staggered platforms...
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  • shipping and logistics company COSCO Shipping Ports in association with the Peruvian company Volcan. The port is part of the Belt and Road Initiative; and according...
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    Herrera) is a privately owned museum of pre-Columbian art, located in the Pueblo Libre District of Lima, Peru. The museum is housed in an 18th-century...
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    the neighbourhood of Barrios Altos, in the city of Lima, Peru. Its origin dates back to 1565. Economy of Peru Central Reserve Bank of Peru "Casa Nacional...
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    features the catacombs and the museum, the portal, the chapter house and the cloister. Crossing the threshold of its main doorway and to the left side is...
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    Love Park, Lima (category Geography of Lima)
    boardwalk. The park is the location of El beso, a sculpture by Víctor Delfín. The place has a view of the Lima coastline and the Villena bridge [es]. It was...
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    The Bridge of Sighs (Spanish: Puente de los Suspiros) is a wooden pedestrian overpass located between the Hermitage of Barranco and the Paseo Chabuca Granda...
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    among visitors. Because it was the residence of Rose of Lima and her family, it is also the location of the miracles attributed to her. The sanctuary was...
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    Pizarro and Nicolás de Rivera, the city's first mayor, toured the city's location and split parcels. Pizarro, taking advantage of his title of founder and governor...
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    The Sanctuary and Monastery of Las Nazarenas is a church in Lima and is the site of the Peruvian Catholic procession of the Lord of Miracles, Señor de...
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    Callao Naval Base (category Military installations of Peru)
    started in the northern part of the facility on June 21, 2023. The naval base was first built in the 1930s as a levee and a naval arsenal. In 1992, then...
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    the construction of the parish temple, on the old Santa Beatriz farm. President Augusto B. Leguía and Teresa Álvarez-Calderón (widow of Manuel Candamo)...
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    Teatro Peruano Japonés (category Peruvian building and structure stubs)
    Peru. It is located at the headquarters of Japanese Peruvian Association, a nonprofit organization for Peruvians of Japanese origin. "Asociación Peruano...
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    Casa de Aliaga (category Buildings and structures in Lima)
    historic centre of Lima, Peru. It was built on a huaca, dateing back to May 1536, at the beginning of the founding of the city, and belonged to Conquistador...
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    next to Italy Square, and is one of two main candidates for the location of Rímac, the Indian oracle that gave the local river—and thus the city—its name...
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  • Marcos Museum of Art, University of San Marcos Museum of the Brain Museum of Contemporary Art, Lima Museum of Elections and Democracy Museum of Italian...
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    Alameda Chabuca Granda (category Historic Centre of Lima)
    promenade of the city of Lima adjacent to the Government Palace and on the banks of the Rímac River. It has three amphitheatres and stages for varieties and Música...
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    2023, two expansion projects target the northern and southern ports. The port also hosts the Naval Museum (Spanish: Museo Naval), which opened in 1958. The...
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    Lima Convention Center (category Buildings and structures in Lima)
    located in the cultural center of the city of Lima, around the Museo de la Nación and the National Library of Peru, in an area of 10,884 m2. It was inaugurated...
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    Miraflores Central Park (category Monument and memorials to John F. Kennedy)
    of street cats, and is commonly used for events such as book fairs and marathons, as well as Fiestas Patrias celebrations such as the Corso Wong, and...
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    offices in the city of Lima, located in the districts of Ate, Los Olivos, Lima, San Juan de Lurigancho and Villa El Salvador. At the national level, it has...
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    Delfines Hotel & Convention Center (category Animal welfare and rights in Peru)
    Yaku and Wayra, who gave the hotel its name. The hotel, owned by Jacques Levy Calvo—a Peruvian businessman and banker of French-Jewish descent—and his...
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    Metamorphoses, directed by Chela de Ferrari [es]. at the initiative of a group of artists supported by the San Ignacio de Loyola institute. Since its...
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    Quinta Heeren (category Buildings and structures in Lima)
    headquarters of the embassies of Japan, Belgium, Germany, France and the United States. Starting in the 1920s, there was a significant presence of wealthy...
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    Bar Cordano (category Historic Centre of Lima)
    family lived in front of the bar, in what today is the Bodega y Quadra Museum. It was declared part of the Cultural heritage of Peru on April 26, 1989...
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    Lima Golf Club (category Venues of the 2019 Pan and Parapan American Games)
    Lima Golf Club is a Peruvian golf club and civil association located in San Isidro District, Lima. Besides serving as a golf course, it also serves as...
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    in the courtyard of the old Teatro Principal, where it was possibly installed around 1874, to Union Square, then Merced Square and ultimately its final...
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