Archbishop's Palace is the seat of the Archbishop of Lima, Cardinal Juan Luis Kipriyanov and headquarters administration Archdiocese of Lima. The building is located in the Plaza Mayor, the main square of the historic center of Lima, 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, on one of which was installed archbishop coat of arms. The first floor has a gallery of arches and slender wooden columns. The facade of the old building was demolished in the late XIX century, together with the Cathedral of Lima. The rest of the palace was destroyed in the subsequent years. The current building was opened on 8 December 1924 in celebration of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.
The building of the Archbishop's Palace of Lima is one of the finest examples of neoclassical architecture of the applied capital of Peru in the twentieth century. The facade of the palace of the Archbishop of Lima made entirely of stone. Above the central door, which is made in the style of neoplateresko are two large balconies in the style of neo-baroque carved from cedar wood.
In the halls of the palace kept great cultural wealth of the country: a great collection of paintings, sculptures and religious ornaments of the colonial period, many of which belonged to the temple in the city . You can also see jealously guarded relic - the skull of St. Toribio Alfonso de Mogrovedzho and Robledo (1538-1606) - the second archbishop of Lima, and the organizer of the missionary Church in the Viceroyalty of Peru, one of the five Peruvian saints . You can see the statue of Saint Barbara, stained glass French windows, marble staircase with wooden hand rail on 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, works of art XVI-XVIII centuries . On the second floor, which preserves the old decor of the palace, there is a large collection of portraits of the bishops of Lima, as well as furniture, paintings and decorative pieces from different periods .
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