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The old Archbishop's Palace was built on the place the Cabildo of Lima had occupied from 1535 to 1548, when that institution moved to its current location across the square. The building had six balconies of different styles and several entrances, displaying the Archdiocese coat of arms above the main gate.
One of its archbishops was the saint Torribio Mogrovejo. [1] [2] [3] The suffragan dioceses are: Callao, Carabayllo, Chosica, Huacho, Ica, Lurín, and (Territorial Prelature) Yauyos. From 1999 to 2019 the Archbishop of Lima was Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, made Cardinal in 2001. The Archbishop's Palace of Lima is the headquarters of the archdiocese.
The Historic Centre of Lima (Spanish: Centro histórico de Lima) is the historic city centre of the city of Lima, the capital of Peru.Located in the city's districts of Lima and Rímac, both in the Rímac Valley, it consists of two areas: the first is the Monumental Zone established by the Peruvian government in 1972, [1] and the second one—contained within the first one—is the World ...
By the late 1880s, St. Augustine was being developed by Henry M. Flagler as a winter resort for wealthy northern families. He built two grand hotels in the Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Revival styles: the Ponce de Leon Hotel (Carrère and Hastings, 1882) and the Alcazar Hotel (Carrère and Hastings, 1887).
The Plaza Mayor (English: Town square), also known as the Plaza de Armas, [1] is the main public square of the historic centre of the city of Lima, Peru.It dates back to the foundation of the city by Francisco Pizarro on January 18, 1535.
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Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, now Pope Francis, will soon have his own private apartment at the offical papal residence at Palazzo Apostolico (the Apostolic Palace, pictured above) in ...
The Basilica Cathedral of Lima, [a] commonly known as the Metropolitan Cathedral of Lima, [b] is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Lima, Peru. It is the seat of the Archdiocese of Lima . Its construction began in 1535 and finished in 1797, having been built in its present form between 1602 and 1797. [ 4 ]