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Francisco Pizarro, appointed Governor of New Castile in 1529, founded the city of Lima as his capital in 1535 and built his palace on its Plaza Mayor in 1536. The original house was a two-story adobe structure, built on the Castilian model with two large courtyards for troops and stables.
It belonged to Francisco Martín de Alcántara , maternal brother of Francisco Pizarro, from whom the house took its name. After his death, the property passed to his wife, Inés Muñoz de Ribera [ es ] , who later, after her death, bequeathed it to the Monastery and Convent of the Clean and Purísima Concepción, later around the year 1950 the ...
1750 map of Lima and its walls.. The city of Lima, the capital of Peru, was founded by Francisco Pizarro on January 18, 1535, and given the name City of the Kings. [7] [8] Nevertheless, with time its original name persisted, which may come from one of two sources: Either the Aymara language lima-limaq (meaning "yellow flower"), or the Spanish pronunciation of the Quechuan word rimaq (meaning ...
The road that today constitutes the Huallaga jirón was laid by Francisco Pizarro when he founded the city of Lima on January 18, 1535. In its first block, to the north, the extension corresponding to the Plaza de Armas was arranged and in its second block, also to the north, the land corresponding to the priest's home and intended for the construction of the church.
The square is located in a corner of the Plaza Mayor, on the side between the Government Palace and the Municipal Palace, where the Casa Alcántara was formerly located, which was demolished in 1952, during the administration of then Mayor of Lima, Eduardo Dibós, to inaugurate, on July 26 of that year, Francisco Pizarro Square. [3]
Lima (/ ˈ l aɪ m ə / LY-mə [4]) is a city in and the county seat of Allen County, Ohio, United States. [5] As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 35,579. [6] It is located in northwest Ohio along Interstate 75, approximately 72 miles (116 km) north of Dayton, 78 miles (126 km) southwest of Toledo, and 63 mi (101 km) southeast of Fort Wayne, Indiana.
The Casa de Aliaga is a colonial-style building located in the 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 Geronimo de Aliaga. Its current owner is Gonzalo Jorge de Aliaga Ascenzo, VIII Count of San Juan de Lurigancho.
Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru is an 1846 history painting by the English artist John Everett Millais. [1] Millais was sixteen when he produced the work, which depicts the seizure of the Incian Emperor Atahualpa by the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in 1532.