Word: libertad
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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...half a millennium at least Peru has run the whole golden gamut of romance, always with deep, appropriate, surging undertones of blood. In the Department of La Libertad one may see, today, a vast dilapidated circuit of walls enclosing an area of eleven square miles, the fabled and yet factual City of Chan-Chan. Here glowed the prehistoric splendor of the Chimu Empire, long, long before the great Imperial civilization of the Incas rose, to be conquered in later turn by Renaissance Spain. After three centuries of Spanish rule-galleons, slaves and sweated gold-romance in Peru was still...