Peru's new President Pedro Castillo, a champion of the rural poor, will not live in the government palace in Lima known as the 'House of Pizarro' - a symbolic break from some 500 years of tradition and the Andean country's colonial past.
to the nation after his inauguration on Wednesday that the palace would instead be used to house the Ministry of Cultures under his government.
"We will cede this palace to the new Ministry of Cultures to be used as a museum that showcases our history, from its origins to the present." The first 'House of Pizarro' dates back to around 1535, though construction on the current grandiose building started in 1937. The work was finished the following year and the palace was inaugurated in 1938.
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