Tuesday 14 April 2015

Attractive places to visit in Lima


Lima is a renowned city in Peru for its historical and natural scenic beauties. This city is enriched with many amazing places and the environment is preferable for traveler. This city is known as the second driest city in the world. There are famous natural sights along the coast line and galleries, museums are enriched with many historical items. Lima is the capital and the largest city in Peru. The population of Lima is the 8,852,000 with an area of 1,031.8 sq mi. Travelers love to visit the city for its fantastic sites, enriched gallery, excellent foods and colorful nights. 
There are so many museum and galleries and nice places to visit in Lima. Some of these places are described below.
  • La Catedral de Lima: This church is situated beside the Archbishop’s palace and renowned as the first church. It was built in 1535 and faced so many reconstructions in the year of 1622 to 1940. There is also collection of paintings, vestments and sculpture. This place is enriched with many historical elements and events. 
     
  • Museo Larco: this museum was used as the viceroy’s mansion in 18th-century. This is declared as one of the largest presentation of ceramics. It was opened in 1926 by Rafael Larco Hoyle, was a collector of things related with pre- Columbian. There are around 50,000 pots are reserved here, which from the Cupisine, chinu, chancay, Nazca and inca cultures. 
  • Museo de la Nacion: This museum is preserving the collections of Peru’s civilizations, Chavin stone carvings. There is a display of photographic collections of internal conflict in 1980 to 2000. There is a contemporary collection of Latin American history is a must go section.
  • : this 140 sq-meter plaza was established by Francisco Pizarro in 16th century. This is a very nice place to visit and a great day out for the traveler. This place is having regular exhibition on different topics, to join those exhibition you must book your place minimum 48 hours ago. 
A huge number of travelers around the different countries of the world come to visit this city for the search of beauty and historic places. It is a nice and safe destinations for the traveler.

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