Casa de Aliaga, with almost five centuries of history. Witness the eighteen generations of the Aliaga family from the colonial era when Lima was founded to modern Peru, staging an interesting story of a prominent family, the oldest house in the Americas that has been continuously inhabited by the same family, just one block away from Lima's main square.
In November 1532, Spanish colonist Francisco Pizarro recreated the Mexican conquistador Hernán Cortés who destroyed the Aztec Empire and captured King Montezuma II of Tenochtitlan. In The city of Cajamarca, the Inca king Atahuallpa, who was celebrating his victory over his brother Vaska in the Inca Civil War, Pizarro took Atahuallpa hostage with lies, and although the Inca king later paid a large ransom to try to save his life, Atahualpa was eventually killed in 1533. After that, Pizarro conquered the Inca capital of Cusco. The city of Lima was founded on January 18, 1535.
Pizarro thanked those who had been with him, allocating and giving some land to those he trusted, including his captain and right-hand man, Jerónimo de Aliaga y Ramírez, one of the 168 Spaniards who witnessed the capture and hanging of Inca king Inca Atahualpa. According to historians, the land awarded to Oliagah once belonged to the Inca chief Taulichusco, the highest authority in the Rimac Valley, and the old building is a traditional architectural structure known as Quincha, an earthquake-resistant frame made of wood, rattan or reed bamboo, covered with mud and stucco. Today, the house is completely different from the one at the time of Lima's founding, a beautiful house that has withstood the passage of time and occasional earthquakes, the structure has been destroyed and restored several times, and to this day the house shows various combinations of styles from the Renaissance to Baroque and Neoclassical (to be continued).
Figure 1: Entrance to the House of Aliaga
Figure 2-5: Allega House
Figure 6: Coat of arms presented by Charles I to Gironimo Ariaga
Figure 7: Sword of Gironimo Aliaga in the tiled hall
Figure 8: Gironimo Aliaga's sword
Figure 9: Allega House
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