| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Nazca paintings are styalised. This is a face.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Nazca ceramic with face markings.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Nazca faces.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Painting of a pelican eating a fish (Nazca).
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Ceremonial pot with dancing crows (from 200, Nazca).
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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A grampus (fish like creature) ceramic from the Nazca.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Nazca cup with a baseball type game.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Playing an instrument.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Figure with checked pattern (Nazca).
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Double pot with heads (Nazca).
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Ceremonial pot with frog (Nazca, 400).
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Female fertility symbol from the Nazca.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Bowl with crayfish (Nazca).
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Duck head ceramic with painted fish (Nazca).
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Figure with loaves (Nazca).
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Clay pan pipes with painted fish.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Painted wooden Nazca horn.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Seeds.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Pot with crowned head (Nazca).
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Tripple headed Nazca pot.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Large striped pot from the Nazca.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Many Nazca paintings are found in the Nazca Lines. These are hummingbirds.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Bowl with spiders, similar to the Nazca Lines.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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The monkey is a figure found in the Nazca lines.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Alcatraz (heron), another figure from the Nazca lines.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Pot with painted turbanned figure (Nazca).
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Lizards from the Nazca (200 BCE to 800).
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Human figure with a fish (Nazca).
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Figure pouring water from a pot (Nazca).
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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The Nazca ceramics are the most colourful in Peru.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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A sample of Nazca cloth work.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Wooden totem from the Ica civilisation which flourished from 1200 to 1400, when they were absorbed by the Inca.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Ica walking srick with a kingfisher made of feathers.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Ica cloth with styalised figures.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Ica cloth made from feathers.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Figure swimming (Ica).
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Mummy with hat from the Huari civilisation (500 to 1100).
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Huari hats.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Huari clay figure. The Huari descended from the Andes to the coastal plains.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Painted Huari trough.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Ceramic with a white millipede (Huari).
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Huari battle scene with warriors.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Later Huari ceramics were influenced by the Nazca.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Puma (Huari).
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Puma bowl (Huari).
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Puma shaped bowl. The Huari worshiped the puma.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Figure holding a drinking cup (Huari).
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Sample of Huari cloth.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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The Huari were excellent weavers.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Inca quipas used to keep records. Values depend on string length, colour and position of knots.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Woven bag with llamas from the Incas (1450 - 1530). The Incas were the region's final conquerors before the arrival of the Spanish.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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The Inca made superb ceramics.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Workers and craftsmen (Inca).
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Ica
Site / Event : Ica Museum
|
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Bird eating a fish (Inca).
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
District : Plaza del Armas
Site / Event : Presidential Palace
|
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The Presidential Palace dominates the central Plaza del Armas.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
District : Plaza del Armas
Site / Event : Presidential Palace
|
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The palace was constructed in 1535.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
District : Plaza del Armas
Site / Event : Presidential Palace
|
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Presidential guard outside the palace.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
District : Plaza del Armas
|
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The Cathedral dates from 1746.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
District : Plaza del Armas
|
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Statue of Fransisco Pizzaro, the Spanish conqueror of the Incas.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
District : Plaza del Armas
|
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The Archbishops' Palace (1924).
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Monastery of San Fransisco
|
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The Church and Monastery of San Fransisco.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Monastery of San Fransisco
|
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The buildings date from 1674.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Monastery of San Fransisco
|
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The cloisters enclose a garden.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Monastery of San Fransisco
|
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The cloister buildings date from 1620.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Monastery of San Fransisco
|
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The carved wooden cloister ceiling shows Arabic influence.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Monastery of San Fransisco
|
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Tiles from Seville.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Monastery of San Fransisco
|
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Each cloister side is different.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Monastery of San Fransisco
|
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The interior.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Monastery of San Fransisco
|
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The original library.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Monastery of San Fransisco
|
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Painting of an execution.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Monastery of San Fransisco
|
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The catacombs beneath the monastery contain the remains of 70,000 burials.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Monastery of San Fransisco
|
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Bones in a well in the catacombs.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Monastery of San Fransisco
|
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Collection of bones.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Monastery of San Fransisco
|
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Bell towers of the monastery church.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Monastery of San Fransisco
|
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The convent.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Monastery of San Fransisco
|
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Wooden carved furnishings in a chapel.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Museum of the Spanish Inquisition
|
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The Museum of the Spanish Inquisition.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Museum of the Spanish Inquisition
|
 |
The Court of the Inquisition was held here between 1570 and 1820.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Museum of the Spanish Inquisition
|
 |
The museum is set in a former palace. The state senate sat here until 1930.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Museum of the Spanish Inquisition
|
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Carved mahogany ceiling.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Museum of the Spanish Inquisition
|
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The building now houses exhibits about the Spanish Inquisision.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Museum of the Spanish Inquisition
|
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Tunnels under the building.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Museum of the Spanish Inquisition
|
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The cells were beneath the building.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Museum of the Spanish Inquisition
|
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The former cells contain exhibits of torture.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Museum of the Spanish Inquisition
|
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The rack.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Museum of the Spanish Inquisition
|
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Wooden stocks.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Museum of the Spanish Inquisition
|
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Scenes of torture.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Museum of the Spanish Inquisition
|
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Using fire against heretics.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Museum of the Spanish Inquisition
|
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Victim chained to a wall.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Museum of the Spanish Inquisition
|
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Victim held in a box.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Museums
|
 |
Lima has several excellent museums. The highlights are the ceramics like this one from 2000 BCE.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Museums
|
 |
A silver ceremonial cup, an example of metalwork from the Sican (750 to 1300).
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Museums
|
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Ceramic showing a porter (Sican).
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Museums
|
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Sican armour.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Museums
|
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Carved stick (Sican).
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Museums
|
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Inlaid dish (Sican).
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Museums
|
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A Sican gold goblet.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Museums
|
 |
Sican gold ornaments are some of the best in Peru.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Museums
|
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Sican gold.
|
1995 |
| Peru |
City / Town : Lima
Site / Event : Museums
|
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Royal finary (Sican).
|
1995 |
were added from 1 February 2025.