The city of Lima, also known as City of Kings, was founded by Francisco Pizarroon January 18 from 1535 on the right bank of the Rimac River due to the excellent strategic and geographic conditions of the valley. Lima, whose name comes from the Indian word Rímac, which translated into Spanish means talkative, began to grow rapidly between the testimony of ancient cultures that developed throughout the area. Became the XVI and XVII in the most important and powerful metropolis in America Spanish, was the center of commercial and cultural viceroyalty until the eighteenth century that created the Viceroyalty of La Plata which absorbed the famous mines of Potosí. And 1 in 821 and after intense political movements is Independence proclaimed by Generalissimo Don José de San Martín, starting from the moment the Republican period.

Today, Lima is a modern city that offers a variety of attractions, which together with its rich past, a harmonious synthesis of all this wealth of history in their museums, traditional quarters, restaurants, craft galleries and nightlife.