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...

Lima District of the city of Lima, capital of Peru. Construction started during the second government of Augusto B. Leguía (1919–1930) and finished under...

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...

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...

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...

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...

spelling of his name would be Tauri-Chusca. His domain extended across part of the fertile valley of the Rímac River, a place full of orchards and fruit...

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...

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...

panopticon layout, and was designed by Michele Trefogli and Maximiliano Mimey. The penitentiary was built between 1856 and 1860, by order of President Ramón...

area of Av. Javier Prado Este, next to the Museum of the Nation, the La Cultura station of the Lima Metro and the future Lima Convention Center, which could...

Basilica and Convent of Our Lady of the Rosary (Spanish: Basílica Menor y Convento Máximo de Nuestra Señora del Rosario), commonly known as the Convent of Santo...

were set for the month of August 1960 and classes began on 16 September of the same year. In 1961, the Community University of the Center was nationalized...

earthquake of 1746, the statue of the Spanish monarch was destroyed and the arch was left in a ruinous state. In the 1760s, during the government of Viceroy...

it has since been retouched and serves as the square's main feature, itself featuring a statue of Pheme, one of the gods of Ancient Greece. The first fountain...

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...

Dr. Arturo Jiménez Borja between 1953 and 1961. Today it has a site museum, which was the first tourist model of this type in South America. The site is...

to next to the Bolivar Square and forms part of the neighbourhood of Barrios Altos, itself part of the historic centre of Lima. The palace contains the...

the Children's Library, the Multipurpose Room and the Art Gallery; and the Marina Núñez del Prado Museum [es]. There are also many buildings designed by...

The Cabildo of Lima (Spanish: Cabildo de Lima; Cabildo de la Ciudad de los Reyes) was the governing body of Lima and, since 1874, its intendancy. It was...

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...

Huaca Huallamarca (possibly from Quechua wak'a a local god of protection, a sacred object or place / sacred, Walla a people, marka village) also known...

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...

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...

1921 in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the independence of Peru. The design, ornamentation, furnishing, and gardening of the plaza was designed...

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...

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...

The Basilica and Convent of Saint Peter (Spanish: Basílica y convento de San Pedro), formerly known as Basilica of Saint Paul (Spanish: Basílica de San...

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...

University of Engineering (Spanish: Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, UNI) is a public engineering and science university located in the Rímac District of Lima...