Description of the attraction
Campo de Marte Park is one of the largest historic parks located in Lima, Peru. It is considered the "lung" of the city because of its lush green alleys.
Peruanidat Avenue divides the park into the eastern and western sectors. El Campo de Marte Park is about 750 meters long and 450 meters wide. Among the main monuments installed in the park, you can see a monument to the defenders of the fatherland, a monument to the Mother, a monument to Jorge Chavez, a monument to Miguel Cervantes.
On the western side of the park there is a huge monument to the defenders of the 1941 Peruvian-Ecuadorian War "Monumento a Los defensores de la frontera", made of granite by the sculptor Artemio Ocaña Bejarano, with 28 bronze human figures. It was installed in 1966.
On the east side of the park is the "El Ojo que Llora" monument, erected to commemorate the victims of terrorist violence and state repression during the internal armed conflict in Peru between 1980 and 2000.
On the territory where the Campo de Marte Park is now located, originally there were exhibition premises, and then the Santa Beatriz hippodrome was built, which worked on this site from 1903 to 1938. The new San Felipe racetrack was built further south, but the stand, track and racetrack remained. The track was subsequently paved with asphalt, and the stand is currently used for spectators watching the annual military parade held on July 29, the day after Peru's Independence Day.
