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Jirón Caylloma
Jirón Caylloma, also known as Jirón Cailloma, is a major street in the Damero de Pizarro, located in the historic centre of Lima, Peru. The street starts at its intersection with Jirón Conde de Superunda and continues until it reaches Jirón Quilca. The street has housed important characters of the republican history of Peru, such as Colonel Francisco Bolognesi and poet José Santos Chocano. History The road that today constitutes the street was laid by Francisco Pizarro when he founded the city of Lima on January 18, 1535. With the expansion of the Basilica and Convent of Santo Domingo, the street was enclosed alongside the jirón Santa. In 1862, when a new urban nomenclature was adopted, the road was named jirón Caylloma, after the province of the same name. Prior to this renaming, each block (''cuadra'') had a unique name: *Block 1: Afligidos. According to José Gálvez Barrenechea, poet once wrote that a large number persons afflicted by an earthquake sought refuge in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Combatants Of The Morro De Arica Museum
The Combatants of the Morro de Arica Museum (), also known as the Casa de Bolognesi, is a house museum dedicated to the War of the Pacific and its battle of Arica, located at the birthplace of Francisco Bolognesi, in the historic centre of Lima, Peru. History The museum was installed in the house where Colonel Francisco Bolognesi, killed in action during the Battle of Arica (1880), was born in 1816. The mansion, declared a national monument on January 29, 1962, was restored under the military government of Juan Velasco Alvarado, inaugurated on June 7, 1975, by then War Minister Francisco Morales Bermúdez in a ceremony assisted by the descendants of those who fought during the battle. Its interior restoration was carried out by the architect Alfonso Estremadoyro, who restored its colonial appearance, but not the façade, whose restoration was in charge of the National Institute of Culture. In 2016 the museum was restored again as well as many pieces from its collection, such as mil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Santos Chocano
José Santos Chocano Gastañodi (May 14, 1875 – December 13, 1934), more commonly known by his pseudonym "El Cantor de América" (), was a Peruvian poet, writer and diplomat, whose work was widely praised across Europe and Latin America. Considered by many to be one of the most important Spanish-American poets, his poetry of grandiloquent tone was very sonorous and full of color. He produced lyrical poetry of singular intimacy, refined with formalism, within the molds of modernism. His work is inspired by the themes, the landscapes and the people of Peru and of America in general. He became the most popular writer in Peru after Ricardo Palma, although his ascendancy in Peruvian literary circles gradually diminished, to the benefit of another great peruvian poet, César Vallejo. He claimed to have rediscovered Latin America through verse in his 1906 collection ''Alma América'', which carried an introduction by the distinguished philosopher-poet Miguel de Unamuno. Chocano was in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Square Metre
The square metre ( international spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures) or square meter ( American spelling) is the unit of area in the International System of Units (SI) with symbol m2. It is the area of a square with sides one metre in length. Adding and subtracting SI prefixes creates multiples and submultiples; however, as the unit is exponentiated, the quantities grow exponentially by the corresponding power of 10. For example, 1 kilometre is 103 (one thousand) times the length of 1 metre, but 1 square kilometre is (103)2 (106, one million) times the area of 1 square metre, and 1 cubic kilometre is (103)3 (109, one billion) cubic metres. SI prefixes applied The square metre may be used with all SI prefixes used with the metre. Unicode characters Unicode has several characters used to represent metric area units, but these are for compatibility with East Asian character encodings and are meant to be used in new documents. * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acequia
An acequia () or (, also known as síquia , all from ) is a community-operated watercourse used in Spain and former Spanish colonies in the Americas for irrigation. Acequias are found in parts of Spain, the Andes, northern Mexico, and what is now the Southwestern United States (northern New Mexico and southern Colorado). In the United States, the oldest known irrigation canals are in Arizona and date back to 1200 BCE. Irrigation was extensively used by the Pueblo peoples in New Mexico in the Pre-Columbian era. Spanish colonizers arrived in New Mexico in 1598 and brought irrigation methods from Iberia based on the Arab Agricultural Revolution. Scholars describe acequias as "technological systems that are designed, maintained, and operated to meet a variety of productive goals, social services, and health needs, with the practice of irrigated agriculture being of paramount importance." The traditional form of governance over acequias survives in New Mexico and southern Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corral De Comedias
''Corral de comedias'' () is a type of open-air theatre specific to Spain. In Spanish all secular plays were called ''comedias'', which embraced three genres: tragedy, drama, and comedy itself. During the Spanish Golden Age, ''corrals'' became popular sites for theatrical presentations in the early 16th century when the theatre took on a special importance in the country. The performance was held in the afternoon and lasted two to three hours, there being no intermission, and few breaks. The entertainment was continuous, including complete shows with parts sung and danced. All spectators were placed according to their sex and social status. History In modern times, the first buildings devoted to the theatre in Spain appeared in the 16th century. Representations of ''comedias'' were instead held in the courtyard of houses or inns where a stage with background scenery was improvised along one of the sides. The three remaining sides served as public galleries to the wealthy, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Bromley
Juan C. Bromley Seminario (Callao; – Lima; ) was a Peruvian historian and lawyer. He served as municipal secretary in the Municipality of Lima, urban planning researcher in the city of Lima, and was also president of various Peruvian soccer clubs. Biography Born in Callao, he was a Graduate of Letters and Law from the National University of San Marcos. Until he was 65 years old, he worked in seventeen council positions for the Municipality of Lima. He received the gold medal for The Royal Standard of the City of Lima in 1927 and the grand prize of the historical contest of the fourth centennial of Lima in 1935. He was a sports leader and between 1927 and 1931 he presided over the Club Alianza Lima, as well as founding president of Deportivo Municipal and president of the Peruvian Football Federation between 1944 and 1948. Between 1942 and 1964 he published the transcription of 13 Books of the Cabildo of Lima, as well as the indexes of 45, including 31 Books of Charters and Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis A
Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic in Portugal, but common in Brazil. Origins The Germanic name (and its variants) is usually said to be composed of the words for "fame" () and "warrior" () and hence may be translated to ''famous warrior'' or "famous in battle". According to Dutch onomatologists however, it is more likely that the first stem was , meaning fame, which would give the meaning 'warrior for the gods' (or: 'warrior who captured stability') for the full name.J. van der Schaar, ''Woordenboek van voornamen'' (Prisma Voornamenboek), 4e druk 1990; see also thLodewijs in the Dutch given names database Modern forms of the name are the German name Ludwig and the Dutch form Lodewijk. and the other Iberian forms more closely resemble the French name Louis, a der ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of San Marcos
The National University of San Marcos (, UNMSM) is a public research university located in Lima, the capital of Peru. In the Americas, it is the first officially established ( privilege by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor) and the oldest continuously operating university. The university started in the general studies that were offered in the convent of the Rosario of the order of Santo Domingo—the current Basilica and Convent of Santo Domingo—in around 1548. Its official foundation was conceived by Fray Thomas de San Martín on May 12, 1551; with the decree of Emperor Charles I of Spain and V of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1571, it acquired the degree of pontifical granted by Pope Pius V, with which it ended up being named the "Royal and Pontifical University of the City of the Kings of Lima". It is also referred to as the "University of Lima" throughout the Viceroyalty. Throughout its history, the university had a total of four colleges under tutelage: the Colegio Real y M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathedral Of Lima
The Basilica Cathedral of Lima, commonly known as the Metropolitan Cathedral of Lima, and formerly the Iglesia Metropolitana de los Reyes, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Lima, Peru. It is the seat of the Archdiocese of Lima. Its construction began in 1535 by under Francisco Pizarro and was completed in 1797, having been built in its present form between 1602 and 1797. Its patron saint is Saint John, Apostle and Evangelist, to whom it is dedicated. Located on the eastern limit of the Plaza Mayor, at the second block of the Jirón Carabaya, and is part of the Historic Centre of Lima. The Archbishop's Palace and Iglesia del Sagrario are located beside the cathedral. It is the oldest and largest church in Peru. History The Cathedral of Lima was built on the site of the Inca shrine of the Puma Inti and the palace of the Cuscoan prince Sinchi Puma, a direct descendant of the Inca Sinchi Roca. When Francisco Pizarro founded Lima, he assigned a plot of land to the church, mak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José De La Riva-Agüero Y Osma
José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma, 6th Marquess of Montealegre de Aulestia and 5th of Casa-Dávila (26 February 1885 – 25 October 1944) was a Peruvian lawyer, historian, writer, essayist and politician who served as Prime Minister of Peru, Minister of Justice and Mayor of Lima. He was a leading member of the so-called Generation of 900 (also known as the Arielist generation), a conservative ideological movement of the early 20th century that also included other important member of Peruvian society, such as Víctor Andrés Belaúnde, Francisco García Calderón Rey, Óscar Miró Quesada de la Guerra and José Gálvez Barrenechea. He was a notable polygraph and his works included treatises on law, literary history, the history of Peru, legal philosophy and religious thought, many of which have had great impact and fundamental influence on the development of Peruvian culture. His thought followed a changing trajectory, evolving from a youthful liberalism to a severe conservatism ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Gálvez Barrenechea
José Gálvez Barrenechea (7 August 1885 – 8 February 1957) was a Peruvian poet, writer, journalist, university professor, and politician. He was Ministry of Justice and Human Rights (Peru), Minister of Justice, Worship and Instruction (1931); Minister of Foreign Relations (1931); First Vice President of the Republic (1945–1948); President of the Senate (1956–1957), and also Grand Master of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Peru (1955–1956), among other academic and political positions, which he carried out with notable success. As a writer, he achieved reputation for his entertaining and informed chronicles on landscapes and customs of the Peruvian capital, which earned him the name of "Chronicler of Lima"; and for his elegant, refined and harmonious poetry, circumscribed in modernism, which resulted in his being proclaimed as the "Poet of Youth" in 1908. For his literary work, he earned many awards. Early life Barrenechea was born in Tarma, a mountain city in central Peru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alameda Chabuca Granda
Chabuca Granda Promenade () is a large promenade of the city of Lima adjacent to the Government Palace and on the banks of the Rímac River. It has three amphitheatres and stages for varieties and ''Música criolla''. History The promenade is built in the site of the former '' Polvos Azules'' marketplace, itself occupying the former site of the Venetian Palace. The name of the market was taken from the name of the street, which was the only block of the Jirón Santa. The new promenade was named in honour of Chabuca Granda, a renowned Peruvian singer-songwriter who created and performed a large number of Creole waltzes and Afro-Peruvian rhythms. ''La marinera'' The avenue is crowned by a large steel sculpture without chrome and painted in red titled "La marinera", the work of artist Rhony Alhalel, which pays tribute to the marinera, the national dance of Peru. Use It is a mandatory venue for the Art Biennials ("''La Gran Semana de Lima''") and gastronomy festivals that take ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
