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Communications students perpetuate the beauty of Piura Monumental Zone.   Photographs Courtesy UPAO/DDC Piura.   PIURA CITY, Peru – How many times have you taken the time to go up this city but looking to explore beauty? Modern times are updating the face to the department’s capital – it doesn’t mean it’s printing identity . It would be convenient. However amid the contemporary, it still remains in the walls and public walks those strips that made the city of eternal heat like a lovely location that inspired big plays of Peruvian literature, classic waltzes of the national song archive too. Piura’s Descentralized Direction of Culture ( DDC Piura ) thinks one way to keep that legacy is through the divulgation of that patrimony, so promoting development . Yes, it’s possible. It’s called making it worthy . That’s why it  has been allied strategically to the Communications Programme of Piura’s Antenor Orrego Private University (UPAO Piura, as in Spanish). Bot...

By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo . Photographs provided by Antenor Orrego Private University.   Photos by Antenor Orrego Private University.   Photo by erick Aquino.   PIURA CITY, Peru – Without intention,Marcela Temple Seminario became one of the most powerful women in earth, she knew how to use  it – the wife of former United Nations Organization’s General Secretary Javier Perez de Cuellar served the poorest people.   Through a prestigious international newspaper, she published a letter asking for solidarity with Timbocttu, Mali, an African country where the kids lived in extreme poverty. She impressed to see the flies putting on the children’s skin.   The post was successful, moved the entire world… or that happened in the 1980s, at least. Few people know Marcela Temple born and raised in Piura. Her family’s house is still in the downtown, inside the so-called Monumental Zone .   It’s one of dozen  of buildings framed in...

Piura’s Disconcentered Culture Board (DDC as its acronyme in Spanish) has recognized the cultural characters of the region, who worked during 2019 by including the community  through the conservation and validation of cultural patrimony, strengthening the cultural identity, and promoting the diversity and intercultural dialogue. Cultural Patrimony Rear Admiral César Morales Huerta-Mercado: From his position as Commander of Peru’s 1 st Navy Zone has launched the signing up of Casa Museo Grau in National System of Public Museums, as well as signing up the cultural collection of that museum in the National List of Cultural Real Estate. Pina Zúñiga de Riofrío: Because her most recent publishing Memory of An Effort – San Lucas de Colán’s Church , what tells the work made restoring one of the oldest Catholic temples at Southern Pacific. Re-validating Piura’s Monumental Zone Programme: Its goal is releasing the cultural, artistic, and historical values of this important d...

At least during three years, touristic guides and businesspersons warned there would be a collapse.     LÚYA, Peru – In 1998, Peruvian Government declared the archaeological complex of Kuélap as cultural patrimony. The touristic reviews describe it like an architectural jewel built by the ancient Chachapoya people , a little confederation of communities settled down in the steepest, wildest lands between Marañón River to the west and Huallaga River to the east. In Peru dimensions, it’s about the Upper Jungle or Rupa-Rupa eco-region – the mountain rain forest, actually, already in Amazon Basin .   The chahchapoya or shacshapooyo (fog’s people, in English) flourished between 900 and 1470 AD extending between the south of Amazonas Department , all the western half of san Martín Department, and the eastern side of La Libertad Department. They were contemporary of the Incas what conquered them during the reign of Tupac Inca Yupanqi who started the expansion of ...