International politics of the post-Pacific War, urban remodeling and sculpture projects in Lima: The public monument to Francisco Bolognesi and the Fallen in the Battle of Arica (1905)

Summary

In 1905, the plaza and monument dedicated to Francisco Bolognesi and his companions who died in the Morro de Arica during the War of the Pacific (1879-1883) were inaugurated in Lima. Based on the role played by monuments and public spaces in Lima at the end of the nineteenth-century and beginning of the twentieth, during the delicate relations between Peru and Chile and the Peruvian intentions to strengthen a diplomatic union with Argentina, we will analyze the project to create them, their intrinsic material characteristics and the ceremony of their inaugurations; where the guest of honor was the Argentinian Roque Sáenz Peña.