Lima – Peru

Lima is the capital of Peru and as such is full of activities.

Downtown is packed with interesting buildings, a lot of neoclasic structures.

Casa de Pizarro

Below is the Government Palace also known as the House of Pizarro, is the seat of the executive branch of the Peruvian Government, and the official residence of the President of Peru.

The current Government Palace building dates largely from the 1920s. It is representative of the Neo-Plateresque style characteristic of Lima from the 1920s to the 1940s. The coat of arms of Pizarro is displayed on the main portico of the building, at Palacio Street, which was designed and built by French architect Claude Antoine Sahut Laurent (1883–1932).

Polish architect Ricardo de Jaxa Malachowski designed the building’s facade in 1938. Inspired by the Neo-Baroque style, it looks onto the main square, the Plaza Mayor, or Plaza de Armas, of Lima.

Basilica y Convento de San Francisco

The church is noted for its architecture, a high example of Spanish Baroque. Its granite carved portal would later influence those on other churches, including the Church of Merced. The vaults of the central and two side naves are painted in mudejar style: a mix of Moorish and Spanish designs.

Basílica y Convento de Nuestra Señora de la Merced

The church, designed in the Baroque style known as Churrigueresque,  other images.

The style churrigueresque refers to a Spanish Baroque style of elaborate sculptural architectural ornament which emerged as a manner of stucco decoration in Spain in the late 17th century and was used up to about 1750, marked by extreme, expressive and florid decorative detailing, normally found above the entrance on the main facade of a building.

 

 

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