Alameda de los Descalzos

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The alameda in 2022.

The Alameda de los Descalzos is an

Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles. Nearby is also the place where Micaela Villegas's Mill House was located. It measures about 450 m
.

History

Demonstrations at the alameda in favour of Guillermo Billinghurst's presidential candidacy in 1912.

It was initially called Alameda Grande. Ordered to be laid out by

Plaza de Armas of Lima.[citation needed
]

Lima's

Perricholi, who were the talk of the demure society ladies of the time.[citation needed
]

It is also said that, at night, ghosts of widows, suicides, and people who died in the Spanish Inquisition or mysterious congregations of ghosts parade around the alameda.

According to the chroniclers of the Viceroyalty, its original design consisted of three streets: two lateral ones for carriages and a central one for pedestrians. There were three fountains, donated by citizen Agustín Hipólito de Landaburu [es], and eight rows of trees that offered walkers shade and coolness. The definitive remodeling that it underwent in the 19th century turned it into a romantic walk. In 1856, President Ramón Castilla gave it a new and definitive unitary outline by ordering the placement of a wrought iron fence imported from England, giving it the romanticist touch of the early 18th century.[citation needed]

It currently has side bars, one hundred lined

months of the year
, as well as 50 ornamental wrought iron vases by artisans of the time.

The

Municipality of Lima carried out renovation works between 2014 and 2015.[3][4][5][6]

Statues

The sculptures of the alameda have as their theme the

gods from Greek mythology. In 2018 these were declared Cultural Heritage of the Nation as part of the set of 91 monumental sculptures located in the Historic Centre of Lima
.

Sculptures at the Alameda de los Descalzos
Name Image Description
Aquarius
Pan
Pisces
Poseidon
Aries
Ares
Taurus
Dionysus
Gemini
Hephaestus
Cancer
Chronos
Leo
Apollo
Virgo
Hermaphroditus
Libra
Hermes
Scorpio
It represents a young woman, she wears a crown of flowers on her head, she wears a long tunic and a long blanket, and in her right hand she holds a basket of flowers. Next to her, a scorpion climbs a trunk and at her feet appears the inscription 'F. Baini Fecit Rome 1855'
Sagittarius
Uranus
Capricorn
Zeus

See also

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References

  1. ^ Albardonedo Freire, Antonio José (2002). El urbanismo de Sevilla durante el reinado de Felipe II (in Spanish). Seville: Guadalquivir. pp. 191–208.
  2. ^ Durán Montero, María Antonia (1984). "La Alameda de los Descalzos de Lima y su relación con las de Hércules de Sevilla y la del Prado de Valladolid". III Jornadas de Andalucía y América. Seville: La Rábida, Imprenta E.E.H.A.
  3. RPP Noticias
    . 2014-10-16.
  4. ^ "WhatsApp: ¿Cuándo terminarán obras en Alameda de los Descalzos?". El Comercio. 2015-02-10.
  5. ^ "Municipio de Lima y del Rímac remozarán la Alameda de los Descalzos". Peru.com. 2013-07-16. Archived from the original on 2013-09-18.
  6. ^ "En octubre entregarán renovada la Alameda de los Descalzos y el Paseo de Aguas". Andina. 2013-07-16.
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