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It was inaugurated on February 14, 1993. The park is surrounded by mosaics with phrases and poems about love in Spanish and Quechua. [1] The trencadís decoration is inspired by Park Güell in Barcelona, Spain, designed by Antoni Gaudí. [2] It was chosen by National Geographic magazine as one of the most romantic places in the world. [3]
El Beso (The Kiss) is a large sculpture in the "Parque del Amor" by the Pacific Ocean in the Miraflores district of Lima, Peru. [1] It depicts the sculptor, Victor Delfín , and his wife kissing. According to local accounts, the mayor of the district holds (or used to hold) a competition for the couple who could sustain the longest kiss, and ...
The Spanish language first arrived in Peru in 1532. During colonial and early republican times, the Spanish spoken colloquially on the coast and in the cities of the highland possessed strong local features, but as a result of dialect leveling in favor of the standard language, the language of urban Peruvians today is more or less uniform in pronunciation throughout most of the country. [5]
Francisco Laso. Engraving by Evaristo San Cristóval. José Francisco Domingo Laso de la Vega y de los Ríos (8 May 1823, Tacna - 14 May 1869, San Mateo District) was a Peruvian painter and politician.
Peruvian Spanish is the main language of 82.6% majorly spoken in the Coastal cities, It is the primary language of the country used for the public media, television, radio, newspapers, and the internet in general with very minimal exceptions.
The tradition originated after the 1534 Spanish conquest of Peru, [1] and it is considered the first artistic center that systematically taught European artistic techniques in the Americas. [1] The Spanish contribution, and in general European , to the Cusco school of painting, is given from very early time, when the construction of the ...
Peruvian sculpture and painting began to define themselves from the ateliers founded by monks, who were strongly influenced by the Sevillian Baroque School.In this context, the stalls of the Cathedral choir, the fountain of the Main Square of Lima [2] both by Pedro de Noguera, and a great part of the colonial production were registered.
[3] [4] [5] However, the "retablo ayacuchano" is the shorthand used for this genre of artwork in Spanish-language literature. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The product still being created into the 1940's was generically called San Marcos Box ( cajón San Marcos ), until collector and art dealer Alicia Bustamante [ es ] decided to start calling them "retablo".