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Huacas del Sol y de la Luna, located six kilometers south from Trujillo. Peruvian architecture is a conjunction of European styles exposed to the influence of indigenous imagery. Two of the most well-known examples of the Early Colonial period are the Cathedral of Cusco and the Church of Santa Clara of Cuzco.
The National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru (Spanish: Museo Nacional de Arqueología Antropología e Historia del Perú, MNAAHP) is the largest and oldest museum in Peru, housed at the Palacio de la Magdalena, located in the main square of Pueblo Libre, a district of Lima, Peru. The museum houses more than 100,000 ...
The history of Peru spans 15 millennia, [1] extending back through several stages of cultural development along the country's desert coastline and in the Andes mountains. Peru's coast was home to the Norte Chico civilization, the oldest civilization in the Americas and one of the six cradles of civilization in the world.
Founded in 1595 [1] by the Franciscan Order [3] and under the auspices of Archbishop Toribio de Mogrovejo, on land donated by María de Valera and her son Luis Guillén, benefactors of the order, [1] the monastic complex is located in the historic district of Rímac at the foot of the San Cristóbal Hill [] and at the end of the Alameda de los Descalzos, a promenade laid out in 1611 by order ...
Miguel Venegas (1680–1764) was a Jesuit administrator and historian. He is most known for his book Noticia de la California , a standard geographical, historical, and ethnographic description of Baja California , Mexico—a region he never personally visited.
The Second part of the royal commentary (la Segunda parte de los comentarios reales) better known as the General history of Peru (La historia general del Perú), is a historical literary work written by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, the first Peruvian and Spanish mestizo of intellectual renown.
The National Museum of Peruvian Culture (Spanish: Museo Nacional de la Cultura Peruana), formerly the National Archaeology Museum (Spanish: Museo de Arqueología Nacional), is a museum dedicated to Peruvian culture in Lima, Peru. [1]
Miguel del Barco (Casas de Millán, 1706– Bologna, 1790) was a Jesuit missionary in Baja California, Mexico and wrote major contributions to the peninsula's history and ethnography. Del Barco was born at Casas de Millán in Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain and earned a degree at the University of Salamanca. He entered the Jesuit novitiate in ...