Photographing Lima’s colonial centre
I recently spent a day walking around the old centre of Lima, once one of the most important and wealthiest cities in the Spanish Empire and the entire world. Its prestige has faded quite a bit, thanks to suffocating internal migration in the 50’s and ex- turned- current President Alan García’s reign of economic destruction and devastation in the 80’s.
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Tags: balconies, colonial, lima, photography, plaza san martin, spaniards
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