Archbishop's Palace of Lima (Palacio Arzobispal de Lima) description and photos - Peru: Lima (Topic)

Archbishop's Palace of Lima (Palacio Arzobispal de Lima) description and photos - Peru: Lima. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Palacio Arzobispal de Lima.

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The Archbishop's Palace of Lima is the seat of Archbishop and Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani and the headquarters of the Metropolitanate of Lima administration. The building is located in Plaza Mayor, the main square of the historical center of Lima, the capital of Peru.

The first building of the Palace of the Archbishop of Lima was built on this site in 1535. This building had a facade with balconies and several entrances, over one of which was the archbishop's coat of arms. On the first floor there was a gallery of arches and slender wooden columns. The facade of the old building was demolished at the end of the 19th century, along with part of the Lima Cathedral. The rest of the palace was destroyed in the following years. The current building was opened on December 8, 1924, on the feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.

The building of the Archbishop's Palace of Lima is one of the finest examples of the neoclassical style used in the architecture of the capital of Peru in the 20th century. The facade of the archbishop's palace in Lima is made entirely of stone. Above the central door, which is made in the Neoplateresco style, there are two large neo-baroque balconies carved from cedar wood.

The halls of the palace contain the enormous cultural wealth of the country: an excellent collection of paintings, sculptures and religious decorations from the colonial period, many of which belonged to temples in the city. Here you can also see a jealously guarded relic - the skull of Saint Toribio Alfonso de Mogroveggio and Robledo (1538-1606) - the 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 windows made of French glass, marble staircases with wooden railings, along which you can climb to the second floor to the chapel with a baroque altar. The ground floor houses a permanent exhibition of paintings dedicated to the Virgin Mary, with works of art from the 16th to 18th centuries. On the second floor, which preserves the ancient decor of the palace, there is a large collection of portraits of the bishops of Lima, as well as furniture, paintings and decorative works from different periods.

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