Fort of Santa Catalina

The Fort of Santa Catalina (Spanish: Fuerte de Santa Catalina) in Lima, Peru, is a Neoclassical style building that partly survives and it is in a good condition, and it is one of the few examples representative of the military colonial architecture that still exists in Peru. Its remaining premises host the Escuela Taller de Lima and feature the original outerwalls, as well as a chapel known as the Chapel of Saint Barbara (Spanish: Capilla de Santa Bárbara).

It dates to the 1800s and was built on a land called "Huerta de los Llanos" and "Huerta Perdida" or that of the "Cuero", which belonged to the Monasteries of Santa Catalina de Siena and de la Concepción respectively.

The property is registered as property of the Peruvian State in the Margesí of National Heritages: Asiento 12, Foja 37, Volume I of the Book of Properties of Lima having, at present, a total area of 25,250 square meters. The Liman traditionalist Ricardo Palma, in one of his tradiciones peruanas, affirms that during the Viceroy Gabriel de Avilés's government the factory of the Barracks of Santa Catalina was started for an artillery barracks, under the direction of the then colonel, and later Viceroy, Don Joaquín de la Pezuela.

Texte adapté de « Fort of Santa Catalina, Lima » de la Wikipédia en anglais, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Fort of Santa Catalina occupe la 4 417e place sur 5 793 au classement de renommée de cet atlas et le 4e rang des 4 que l’atlas recense au Pérou. Fondé v. 1850, il est plus ancien que 10 % des monuments datés de l’atlas — l’un des 407 monuments de l’atlas fondés au XIXe siècle. Voyez comment le Pérou se compare dans les statistiques des châteaux.

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