Muninet Parque La Muralla

This guide to Parque La Muralla in Lima traces the wandering life of the bronze horseman of Francisco Pizarro that stood here for twenty-two years, and the American sculptor, Charles Cary Rumsey, who made it before dying in a car crash in 1922, leaving his widow, Mary Harriman, to ship the finished bronze to Lima as a gift. It follows the statue from its 1935 unveiling at the cathedral through decades of being nudged aside, including a 2003 night move that stripped it of its pedestal and put it into storage for over a year. You'll hear how it finally landed among the excavated stretches of colonial wall around you. Look for the brickwork behind where the rider once stood.