Church
Lima Cathedral
Plaza de Armas de Lima, Jirón Carabaya s/n, Lima 15001
Colonial basilica raised over an Inca temple, holding the conquistador's contested tomb.
This guide to Lima Cathedral opens with a mystery: for eighty-six years, visitors bowed before a mummy in a glass sarcophagus they believed was Francisco Pizarro. It traces the site's deeper past as the palace of Inca prince Sinchi Puma, Pizarro's founding of the church in 1535, his violent death in 1541 at the hands of rivals, and the two dusty boxes workmen found hidden in the crypt in 1977. His remains had been split apart and half forgotten for generations, a skull in one box, bones in another.
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