San Cristobal Mountain is located in Rimac, in Lima. This hill is in the Andes mountains, and Ancient Peruvian civilization believed that the mountains surrounding the valleys were their protective gods.
In
pre-hispanic times this hill was called APU or the sacred mountain of the Rimac
river valley.
According
to a legend this mountain was named San Cristobal after an indigenous rebellion
in 1536, and a wooden cross was placed at the peak to protect the new and small
city of the kings.
Nowadays,
there is a museum next to the gigantic cross, whose most attractive collections
are undoubtedly the historic photos of old Lima. The route to the San Cristobal
cross starts at the Plaza de Armas de Lima, every year many tourists visit this
place.
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