The history of pre-Hispanic Lima is deeply entwined with Pachacamac. Worshipped across the central Andes since before the Inca conquest, the powerful creator god Pacha Kamaq is even revered today, almost 500 years after the Spanish conquest by Catholics in Lima. Today this powerful being has taken shape as the Cristo Morado and has been absorbed into Catholicism, and just as he is today, this ancient figure was also known as the Lord of the Earthquakes.
October 29, 2008 | Archaeology, Culture & History, Lima City Guide
I’ve been spending a lot of time in central Lima recently, so naturally I have been using a significant amount of that time to eat. After serious study, I have come to the conclusion that the best place to eat in central Lima is… drum roll… El Fayke Piurano
October 23, 2008 | Lima City Guide, Opinion, Peruvian Food
Two ancient temples thought to be about 3,000 years old, from the time when high civilisation established itself in northern Peru, have been uncovered in the archaeological complex of Collud-Zarpán.
October 22, 2008 | Archaeology, News
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VIDEO – In November 2002, I was blessed with being invited to Chinchero to help plant papas. Puma and his family and others all work together to get the job done. The clouds come in with rain and sleet, then they burn some brush to send the clouds and rain away. – crickethanna
October 22, 2008 | Opinion
Every tourist who visits the colonial heart of Lima visits the San Francisco convent and descends into the depths of its catacombs, filled with the bones of the first generations of Spanish settlers. [...] The church is also home to one of Lima’s most important libraries. Built in the 18th century, 25 thousand volumes of books are found here, many are now almost 500 years old. The furniture found here is original, the cedar-wood chairs and tables were once used by Franciscans when studying. [..]
October 18, 2008 | Culture & History, Lima City Guide
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Talented food critic taster Juancho (critics criticise while Juancho praises) of Camina El Autor was recently able to visit Peruvian celebrity chef Gastón Acurio’s and wife Astrid Gutche’s newly opened La Mar restaurant in San Francisco – the first in North America. Receiving rave reviews, Juancho adds his opinion.
October 18, 2008 | Peruvian Food
The whole legal debacle started nearly a year ago when a scandal involving the Peruvian National Soccer Team’s sexual rendezvous at a posh hotel paid for by the Federation came to the public’s attention. If there’s one thing that anybody in Peru knows is that the National Soccer Team is never shy of a shameful scandal!
Medina accused pretty boy Paulo Guerrero, a member of the team, of sneaking out of the hotel to go wine and dine a Peruvian model at U.S. based restaurant chain, TGIFridays in the Limean district of Miraflores. On her program Medina presented videographic evidence that was later debunked by the Federation. (Talk about an impartial investigation!)
October 17, 2008 | Lima City Guide, News
Domesticated in Peru millennia ago, Maca was an essential crop for use in the alimentation of ancient Peruvians. Its affects on the body were numerous. It raised energy levels – Inca warriors would consume it before battles and messengers would consume it to be able to run up and down mountains day after day, old people who consumed it would work in the fields as if they were young. It would ward-off disease, increase fertility and could even be used to treat depression. It is also now proven as a cure for osteoporosis.
October 12, 2008 | Opinion
San Marcos was founded in 1551 as the Real y Pontificia Universidad de la Ciudad de los Reyes de Lima (Real and Pontifical University of the City of the Kings of Lima), less than two decades after the founding of the city of Lima. With a royal decree issued by the King of Spain Carlos I and with a papal bull, it claims to be the first officially recognised university in the Americas – Santo Domingo’s was founded first at the time of the conquest of Peru, but didn’t receive recognition from the King until afterwards.
October 8, 2008 | Culture & History, Lima City Guide
A new remote sensing technology has peeled away layers of mud and rock near Peru’s Cahuachi desert to reveal an ancient adobe pyramid, Italian researchers announced on Friday at a satellite imagery conference in Rome.
October 3, 2008 | News
German archaeologist Klaus Koschmieder has spent three years exploring and investigating an area rich in long lost archaeological remains of the Chachapoyas culture. Despite his amazing success in discovering previously unknown cliff face sarcophagi on an ever-reducing budget, his project may come to an abrupt end thanks to Peru’s bureaucratic and incompetent Instituto Nacional de Cultura (INC).
October 2, 2008 | Archaeology, News, Opinion
