Two years in Peru : with exploration of its antiquities . mony.—Political storms foreshadowed. The National Exhibition Palace at Lima, wliicliwas opened on Monday, 1st July, 1872, was sanc-tioned by vote of Congress in the month of Sep-tember, 1869, and the building was commencedon the 1st of January, 1870. It was originally ex-pected to have been finished, and the inaugurationto take place, on the 1st of July, 1872. But in allSouth American countries, it may be scarcely neces-sary to observe, delays such as that just mentionedseem to be a sine qua noii of every undertaking. The originator, as
Two years in Peru : with exploration of its antiquities . mony.—Political storms foreshadowed. The National Exhibition Palace at Lima, wliicliwas opened on Monday, 1st July, 1872, was sanc-tioned by vote of Congress in the month of Sep-tember, 1869, and the building was commencedon the 1st of January, 1870. It was originally ex-pected to have been finished, and the inaugurationto take place, on the 1st of July, 1872. But in allSouth American countries, it may be scarcely neces-sary to observe, delays such as that just mentionedseem to be a sine qua noii of every undertaking. The originator, as well as planner, of the design ofthis palace is Doctor Don Manuel a Fuentes, alreadywell known in connexion with his elegantly illus- 332 TWO YEARS IN PERU. [CHAP. XVI. trated Guide to Lima. Its architect was SenorDon Antonio Leonardo, an Italian; and the totalspace allotted to the gardens, palace, machineshow-rooms, theatre, coffee-houses, concert-room,animal cages, and parterres comprises an area of192,000 metres, or about forty-eight square PRINCIPAL ENTRANCE TO LIMA EXHIBITION PALACE. Situated in the suburbs at the southern side ofthe Penitentiary, tlie Exhibition Palace of Limais one of the most stately and graceful buildingsin the capital of Peru. It stands at the distanceof about a mile from the principal square, or plaza,where we see the palace of Pizarro. In front ofthe Exhibition house, and within tlie enclosure, is aspace of 225 metres long by 172| metres wide. To CUM, xvi.] i;\iMi;rn<»N 333 it IhiTf :n*(^ thicc ciil imiiccs— I lie one,()j)|K)sil( tin* Pcnilciil i:iiy wall, hciii;^ used onStato occasions. Noxl (ollio (lioTillos rnilway arollio two (Miti-anccs for llic piihlic, :iii(l (jiiilo closelo wliiMi^ tickets JUc issued in an adjacent Hniallbnildinir. ^riieso ijfates nie called the SantaMaria and the ** Vivanco —the fiist in lionoui-of the ^linister of the Intci-ior of that iiamo underPresident Halt a, who lield oHice a
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