Museo Presbítero Matías Maestro Cementerio

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• One night in the Presbítero Maestro The Museum visits Cemetery Presbítero Maestro is to do also a great tour for what it is the last mansion of many prominent figures who turned partly of the history of Peru. And it is that in this churchyard constructed in 1808 when the country was still under Spanish domain and it was governed by the viceroy Fernando de Abascal, they rest in mausoleums of the most refined architecture of the 19th century, the remains of men and women who left fingerprint in our country. A rapid tour for the barracks of the Presbítero allows us to find, for example, the mausoleums and the tombs of emphasized intellectual as Ciro Alegría, Jose de la Riva Agüero, Rosa Merino or Jose Santos Chocano, national heroes as Alfonso Ugarte and Andrés Avelino Cáceres and ex-presidents as Manuel Pardo. With the purpose of which we we all know a bit more of the history of our country and of which we could estimate the beautiful mausoleums elaborated by the most out-standing sculptors of two centuries ago, the Welfare of Metropolitan Lima has programmed for this Thursday, the 31st of January the first date of the program " Nights of full moon ", a night tour in which the visitors cross the cemetery to discover the whole wealth that encloses this churchyard that in 2008 celebrated 200 years of existence.
• The description was provided by Maggi Camacho D.