Tacna Cathedral is a
Roman Catholic
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church
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located next to the
Paseo Cívico de Tacna
The Paseo Cívico de Tacna, formerly known as the Plazuela de la Matriz during the Spanish era and as the Plaza Colón from 1892 to 1957, is the main square of the historic centre of Tacna, Peru. It features landmarks such as the city's cathedral ...
at
San Martín Avenue, in the center of the city of
Tacna
Tacna, officially known as San Pedro de Tacna, is a city in southern Peru and the regional capital of the Tacna Region. A very commercially active city, it is located only north of the border with Arica y Parinacota Region from Chile, inland f ...
,
Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...
.
History
Its construction began in 1875 by the French firm of
Alejandro Gustave Eiffel. Because of
the War of the Pacific (1879) and the Chilean occupation, the work stopped. The church was formally completed in 1954.
Architecture
It is built in the
neo-renaissance architectural style. It is created with stones quarried from the hills of
Intiorko and Arunta.
See also
*
San Ramón Church
San Ramón Church () was a 19th-century Catholic Church building, church located in Tacna which played an important role during the War of the Pacific and the subsequent Tacna Province (Chile), Chilean administration of the city. The entire comple ...
References
;Notes
* i perú (2014), "Información de Tacna".
Roman Catholic churches in Peru
Buildings and structures in the Department of Tacna
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