Park of the Exposition
Landscaped garden park built on the site of the demolished city walls, centered on a nineteenth-century exhibition palace.
This guide to the Park of the Exposition in Lima opens with the death of Pedro Ruiz Gallo, a self-taught clockmaker whose workshop once stood on this ground, killed while fitting an experimental torpedo. It then goes back to the giant mechanical clock he spent six years building for the 1872 exhibition staged right here, backed by President Jose Balta and his own savings, standing eleven meters tall with dials for the hour, the seasons, the moon phases and Peru's history carved into turning cylinders. You'll hear about the sentries that snapped to attention at dawn and dusk as the anthem played. Picture the tower where the park's open lawn now sits.
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