part of the house are simple and with wrought iron bars whose austerity contrasts with the ornate style of the balconies. The impressive-sized wooden door, decorated with bronze nails and adorned with two full-size door knockers, opens into a zaguan, featuring four stone-carved segmental arches with a stone floor, in the zaguan to the right and left, there are small steps used by the ladies to get on their mounts without difficulty. On the platforms that crown them, you can see that the stone pieces are joined by copper stars. Near this place a chain was placed that signified the right of Asylum, a privilege that the Palace of the Marquises of Torre Tagle had, and which some churches in Lima also enjoyed at that time. The walls of the zaguan are decorated with Sevillian azulejos and the ceiling is remarkably artesonado. Interior The zaguan leads to a first courtyard, with a spacious entrance, wide, bright and surrounded by elegant balustrades, arcades and Mudéjar-style columns, conceived as the vital center of the entire architectural complex that gravitates towards it. The style is mainly Andalusian Baroque with an obvious Mudéjar influence on the two floors surrounding the central courtyard. The upper floor is reached by a spacious and opulent staircase at the entrance of which is a notable stone doorway with trefoil arches that, like those on the upper floor, exhibit Andalusian Mudéjar influence. On the ceiling of the staircase of the Palacio de Torre Tagle, the coat of arms of the Marquis can be seen, made up of three quarters in which a knight, a snake and a maiden can be distinguished, symbolizing the nickname: Tagle was called the one that the snake killed and with the infanta killed. The upper floor of this family home features elegant galleries with azulejos baseboards, guardrail with balusters and fine mosaic floors. It has fourteen rooms, a dining room, a kitchen, a small chapel, with a fire-gilded Baroque altar, adorned with mirrors and elegant halls, the decorative and interesting azulejos (dating from 1735). One of the rooms, called the Salón Principal, shows the portraits of the Torre Tagle family, one of them shows Don José Bernardo de Tagle Bracho, the 1st Marquis of Torre Tagle who became, in conclusion, the architect of the palace, according to the inscription on the painting: Another of the paintings shows his wife (she died in 1761). One