THE WORLD HERITAGE CITIES OF PERU: LIMA, CUSCO AND AREQUIPA
VENUE: PERUVIAN EMBASSY (map) 15 Buckingham Gate, London SW1E 6LB
DATE: THURSDAY OCTOBER 23RD 2025 FROM 6:00 PM TO 7:30 PM
The Anglo Peruvian Society in collaboration with the Peruvian Embassy would like to invite you to the presentation “The World Heritage Cities of Peru: Lima, Cusco and Arequipa”. Come and join Rosabella Alvarez-Calderón who will talk about the three Peruvian cities that are World Heritage Sites. Based on her experiences as a consultant for UNESCO-Peru, this talk will explore the current challenges, possibilities, and ideas for good practice in the historic city centres of Lima, Arequipa and Cusco, considering the principles of the 2011 UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape and current practices emerging from citizen initiatives and urban management.
Rosabella Alvarez-Calderon is an archaeologist and urbanist, with a Master's degree in Design Studies and Critical Conservation from Harvard University, and currently a PhD student at University College London's Institute of Archaeology in the area of Heritage Studies, funded by Peru's Bicentennial Generation Doctoral scholarship. From 2015 to 2024 she was a professor and researcher at the School of Architecture and Urbanism at Pontificia Universidad Catolica (PUCP) in Lima, Peru and in 2021, she was a Mellon History Teaching Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington DC. She is co-founder of PAT Proyecto Patrimonio (2022), a practice based in Lima, Peru specializing in architecture, design and planning, cultural and arts projects, and legal counseling related to the building heritage; and led Activa la Huaca and Huaca Fest, two projects which combine research in urban and archaeological heritage with placemaking education and activism. Her academic journey includes a PhD from the University of London, and she has held visiting fellowships at institutions such as Yale University, the John Carter Brown Library, and the Free Universitat in Berlin.
TICKETS:: Members £15. - Non Members £20 (includes a glass of wine at the reception)
Please go to: https://buytickets.at/angloperuviansociety/1887579b to buy your tickets.
All proceeds will support charitable projects in Peru.
We look forward to seeing you at this very interesting talk.
The Anglo Peruvian Society
