Fun facts!!!!!!!?

Question

what are some Fun Facts about Lima, Peru? not boring like population, currency, rainfall. well... you know BORING stuff. none of that. fun/cool things that would make you want to visit there

Answer 1

Here is a link that tells you what to do and see specifically at Lima, Peru. Check it out!

http://gosouthamerica.about.com/od/perli...

Answer 2

Lets see.

Did you know that the Cathedral of Lima is build on top of an ancient temple of the local inhabitants (that's why it is elevated with respect to everything else in the main square)? Did you know that the columns of the cathedral use bamboo instead of the usuall hardwood of the times, because of the earthquaques that levelled it at least twice during colonial times? Bamboo is flexible and will not break with the movement.

Did you know that the bridge behind the palace of Government (known as the "puente de piedra" or stone bridge) was built in 1610 (probably one of the first in South America) was build with something called "Argamasa" (there was no cement at the time) that required egg whites and left the city with no eggs for more than a month?

Did you know that the citi of Lima was not originally named like that? it was founded by Pizarro as the "Ciudad de los Reyes" (City of the Kings) because it was founded close to the day of the 3 wise men (Called in spanish "los reyes magos" thus the name "ciudad de los reyes"). The name Lima is a misspronunciation of the mane of the river that flows righ by the city: Rimac (which in quechua means "speaker").

Did you know that the angel on top of the fountain at the main square points to an identical one on top of the tower of the church of Santo Domingo, close to the postal service?

Did you know that the Osambela House (a litlle further down the road from the Santo Domingo Church? has a little tower that you see at the entrance so that the owner could see his ships sail into Callao harbour?

Did you know that the oldest firefighter station in Lima was actually founded by Italians and is called the "Bomba Roma" (Roma Pump) and it sits by the old tribunal of the inquisition by the side of the house of congress?

Did you know that the statue of Pizarro that sits at the "Parque de la Muralla" in downtown Lima was actually one of Cortez sent to Mexico and , since Mexico didn't want it, it was sent to Peru? Did you know that the statue has a sword, but no sword sheath?

Did you know that the Italian Museum donated to Peru by the local italians on the centenial of Peru's independence has a stained glass of Flora from Botticceli's Primavera that was destroyed in the 1980's by a bomb and reconstructed by the same venetian glassblowers that constructed the original?

Did you know that the statue of one of Peru's greatest heroes, Miguel Grau, has riding boots on, when he was an admiral and commanded a monitor-class ship, which would have made impractical the use of such boots ( a little artistic licence from the artist)? Did you know that the smoke coming from the smokestack of his monitor, carved on a brass plate on the back of the monument, blows forward instead of backwards (artistic boo-boo)?