The Post and Telegraph Office of Peru

It is near the Main Square, inaugurated in 1897, which has a museum with a big collection of postal stamps and seals of Peru and the world.

Inside the facilities you can see the beautiful windows in the roof, carriages and antique mailboxes.

In the past it was a very crowded place, at present with the modernity of the Internet and the communication in real time his facilities seem half-empty.

The Post and Telegraph Office having on its top the National Coat and an old clock of 1,898.

Riva Agüero House

This house was constructed in the eighteenth century by the Riva Agüero family, whose last member, the distinguished Historian Jose Riva Agüero, donated it to the Pontificial Catholic University of Peru . This building stands out because of its elegant balconies, and inside of this there is a yard decorated with Andalusian-style wooden balconies.

This is the headquarter of the Riva Agüero Institute of the Catolic University in Lima, conserving an interesting historical file and a library being simultaneously used by the local Museum of Popular Art of the PUCP, located in Jr. Camana 459.