Archbishop's Palace of Lima Photo: Archbishop's Palace of Lima

Archbishop's Palace of Lima is the seat of the Archbishop and cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani and headquarters administration of the metropolis of Lima. The building is located on the Plaza Mayor, the main square of the historic center of Lima, capital of Peru.

The first building of the Archbishop's Palace of Lima was built on this site in 1535. This building had a facade with balconies and entrances, one of which was mounted by the arms of the Archbishop. On the ground floor there was a gallery of arches and slender wooden columns. The facade of the old building was demolished in the late nineteenth century along with part of the Cathedral of Lima. The rest of the Palace was destroyed in subsequent years. The present building was opened on the 8th of December in 1924 in the feast of the Immaculate conception of the virgin Mary.

The building of the Archbishop's Palace of Lima is one of the best examples of the neoclassical style used in the architecture of the capital of Peru in the twentieth century. The facade of the Archbishop's Palace in Lima is made entirely of stone. Over the Central door, which is made in the style Neoplatonism are two large balconies in the neo-Baroque style, carved from cedar wood.

In the halls of the Palace houses a vast cultural richness of the country: a great collection of paintings, sculptures and religious decorations of the colonial period, many of which belonged to the temples in town. Here you can also see the jealously guarded relic, the skull of St. Toribio Alfonso de Mogrovejo and Robledo (1538-1606) - second Archbishop of Lima, missionary and organizer of the Church in the Viceroyalty of Peru, one of the five Peruvian saints. You can see the sculpture of Saint Barbara, stained glass, French glass, marble staircases with wooden railings, which you can climb to the second floor to the chapel with an altar in Baroque style. On the ground floor is a permanent exhibition of paintings dedicated to the virgin Mary, with works of art of the XVI-XVIII centuries. On the second floor, which retains the vintage decor of the Palace houses a large collection of portraits of the bishops of Lima, as well as furniture, paintings and decorative works of different periods.

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