Fort of Santa Catalina, Lima - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Fort of Santa Catalina, Lima - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Fort of Santa Catalina (Spanish: Fuerte de Santa Catalina) in Lima, Peru, is a Neoclassical style building that partly survives and it is in a good condition, and it is one of the few examples representative of the military colonial architecture that still exists in Peru. It dates to the 1800s decade and was built on a land called "Huerta de los Llanos" and "Huerta Perdida" or that of the "Cuero", which belonged to the Monasteries of Santa Catalina de SienaThe Convent of Santa Catalina de Siena in Lima was founded by the mother of Isabel Flores Oliva, in memory to St. Catherine of Siena, the Dominican tertiary from Siena whose steps followed St. Rose of Lima. and de la Concepción respectively. The property is registered as property of the Peruvian State in the Margesí of National Heritages: Asiento 12, Foja 37, Volume I of the Book of Properties of Lima having, at present, a total area of 25,250 square meters. The Liman traditionalist Ricardo Palma, in one of his tradiciones peruanas, affirms that during the Viceroy Gabriel de Avilés's government the factory of the Barracks of Santa Catalina was started for an artillery barracks, under the direction of the then colonel, and later Viceroy, Don Joaquín de la Pezuela.Read the Tradición of Ricardo Palma: Nadie se muere hasta que Dios quiere – Crónica de la época del trigésimo séptimo Virrey del Perú. Read more on Wikipedia
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