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Thursday - 18 April 2024 - We head back to old Lima and start the day with a tour of the Lima Cathedral.

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As we walked there were beautiful buildings everywhere.
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The baroque church facade is covered with statues.
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Once inside the first stop is just to the right of the entry doors. The Crypt of Francisco Pizarro is decorated in beautiful tiled mosaics.

This is not a painting but small tiles.
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The bones of the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro who conquered the Inca Empire.
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This mosaic is a scene where Francisco Pizarro, dashing armored figure on the left, is stripping his men of their armor and clothes as they refused to stay with him and explore Peru.
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More beautiful mosaics in the crypt.
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In the main sanctuary was a Catholic Religious Relic of Saint Toribio Alfonso de Mogrovejo, the second Archbishop of Lima.
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The impressive choir stalls, currently flanking the main altar were designed and built in the 17th century.
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There is a museum within and attached to the cathedral.

Several beautiful monstrances are on display. A monstrance is a vessel used in Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, High Church Lutheran and Anglican churches for the display on an altar of an object of piety, such as the consecrated Eucharistic Sacramental bread.
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Another monstrance with beautiful inlay.
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Tile work in the hallway of the cathedral.
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A nativity scene in the museum.
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Announcing Angel from the 18th century.
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In the Chapel of la Inmaculada Concepcion the altar is dominated by the image of Our Lady of la Evangelizacion, a 16th-century wood carving sent by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. It is one of the first images of the Virgin to reach the New World. In her right hand she holds the Golden Rose, a papal decoration conferred by John Paul II in 1988 on his second visit to Peru.
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We were present for the changing of the guard - very hard to see as the gates to the palace were not open.
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Beautiful balconies of the government buildings around the main square.
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We then drove to the Larco Museum which is a privately owned museum of pre-Columbian art. Beautiful grounds.
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It showcases chronological galleries that provide a thorough overview of 5,000 years of Peruvian pre-Columbian history. It is well known for its gallery of pre-Columbian pottery.
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Funerary mantles were used by the people of Peru's southern coast to wrap their dead in multiple layers, together with offerings, creating funerary bundles which were then laid to rest in large semi-subterranean pits in the desert of the Paracas peninsula.
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Scene illustrating the Sacrifice Ceremony and Presentation of the Cup containing the blood of the defeated warriors, which was offered to the Moche Gods.
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Ear ornaments for males which indicated status.
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Gold Funerary Offering - the only known set of gold Chimu clothing from 1300-1500 AD.
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The Larco Museum has much more than they can display, like most museums, and they allow visitors to walk through the storage facility with rows and rows of shelving holding artifacts top to bottom.

Pottery in the storage area.
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All decorations on the museum's outer wall.
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The restaurant at the museum was excellent.
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