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• The guided tour commences at Plaza Mayor in Trujillo, notable for its artisan-merchant portals and grand Renaissance palaces, featuring typical lodges and corner balconies, some still owned by the descendants of noble families who resided there from the 15th to 16th centuries. Dukes and Marquises like Slate, Vargas, Carvajal, Orellana, and Chaves surround this plaza, which is dominated by the Church of San Martin de Tours, "Council Houses," "Royal Weight House," or "Chain House," alongside defensive towers and the famous equestrian statue of Francisco Pizarro.
• At the heart of the Plaza Mayor, the iconic equestrian statue of Francisco Pizarro, who hailed from this city and conquered the Inca Empire, stands. Crafted from solid bronze and weighing approximately 6,500 kg, it was gifted to the city by American sculptor Charls Rumsey in 1927 and unveiled two years later.
• The Marquis de la Conquista Palace bears a title bestowed by Emperor Charles V to Francisco Pizarro. This Plateresque-style structure was constructed per his will by his daughter, the Inca princess Francisco Pizarro Yupanqui, alongside her uncle and spouse, Hernando Pizarro.
On its grand corner balcony is the massive granite shield of the Marquisate, featuring significant aspects of the Inca Empire's Conquest. Flanking the balcony are busts of Francisco Pizarro, his wife, daughter, and brother Hernando. The facade displays a repeating series of the Pizarro coat of arms, depicted by two bears reaching for pine cones on slate flooring.
• Las Casas del Concejo, the former Town Hall located in Plaza Mayor, functioned as a multipurpose building housing the Consistory, Archive of Scribes, Chapel of Good Government, and the Royal Prison accessed via a vaulted passage known as the "jail canyon." Commissioned by Isabella the Catholic in the late 15th century and later renovated under Charles I, nobility built their palaces around this structure, forming the Plaza Mayor. This building now accommodates the Courthouses.
• Also referred to as the Palace of the Marquises of Piedras Albas, it showcases a distinct lodge with three scarzan arches influenced by Florentine style due to the owner's wife's ties to the Piccolomini family and Pope Pius II. The edifice features a stunning Gothic cresting crafted from granite.
• The Palace of the Dukes of San Carlos, built in the Renaissance style spanning four levels, incorporates a stylized portico gallery on the third floor with three semi-circular arches supported by Ionic columns. A cornered balcony displays two bicephalous eagles, an imperial symbol granted by Charles V, along with the dukedom title. The structure is topped with seven distinctive chimney towers and features a spiral staircase with a pinnacle. Constructed in the 16th century by the first "Major Mail of the Indians," Don Lorenzo Galíndez de Carvajal, it remained in family ownership until the 18th century when it became a public service under the crown. It continues to belong to the direct descendants, now the Dukes of San Carlos.
• The Church of San Martín de Tours originated in the 14th century as a small hermitage, later expanded to a taller structure in the 16th century by local architect Sancho de Cabrera, maintaining a single nave with contributions from notable stonemasons, including Alonso and his son Francisco Becerra. Its unique side door, featuring a trilobed Elizabethan Gothic arch, dates back to the 15th century, while the main entrance is of Renaissance design.
Inside, a Baroque altarpiece from the 17th century, an 18th-century Baroque organ, a significant 13th-century Romanesque wood carving of Our Lady of the Crown, and a notable Gothic wooden
