Museum of the Inquisition (Museo de la Inquisicion) Lima

Overview:
Have to say our initial impressions of Lima were not fantastic - not bad but more that is just another city and that's more or less what it turned out to be - with a couple of highlights thrown in there. It was however a good place to stop get over the jet lag, get our bearings and a feel for our trip ahead without feeling we should …

... out and wander around Miraflores. One of the days we got a crazy taxi into the centre to visit the Plaza de Armes and the Museum of the Inquisition but we were glad to get out of the centre after that. We checked out the beach but I wasn“t overly ...

... , and saw the changing of the guard ceremony at El Presidente“s palace. After that we had a quick look at the museum of the Inquisition, which was basically just lots of plastic statues being tortured and making daft faces...hours of fun! Finally we ...

... nbsp; Anyway enough about the hostal.  Lima.   On the square near Hotel Espana.  The Plaza de Bolivia the museum of the inquisition is well worth a visit, seen as it“s free and there are tours in English by the butler from Hudson ...

... laid in parallel, then in another place you find skulls placed in circular patterns. Quite creepy. Then I visited the museum of the Inquisition, located in a building built in the late 16th century for the Peruvian branch of the Spanish Inquisition. ...

... this, we spent an interesting, if slightly morbid afternoon wandering through torture chambers at the Museum of the Inquisition. Though the Inquisition in Lima couldn't sentence anyone to death, it was instrumental in extracting ...

... going to the somber Monasterio de San Francisco where about 70,000 people were buried in the catacombs. Finally we end up at the Museum of the Inquisition. We end our day on the town with a ceviche dinner at a restaurant overlooking the Plaza de ...

... area and just behind the palace you can see the slums on the hills.  It was a four-block walk east to the Museum of the Inquisition which is in a building used until the 1820s for the Spanish Inquisition.  I could not stop myself thinking of ...

... seeing all the surfers out on the waves just off the green coast of the city. We did a couple of touristy things. The museum of the inquisition displayed all the forms of torture people accused of heresy had endured....and then the Catacumbas in San ...

... Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru and, after the Peruvian War of Independence it became the capital of the Republic of Peru. We later visited the Museum of the Inquisition which is all about the horrific things they did to people who didn't want to confess ...

... Atahualpa“s revenge. Whilst in Lima, we took in the pre-Inca ruins of Huaca Pucllana and also visited the Cathedral, Museum of the Inquisition (those Spanish were harsh buggers) and the Church of San Francisco with its catacombs where an estimated ...