property passed into the hands of José de la Asunción Oquendo, who was a man of great figuration, which is why people began to call the house as the Casa de Oquendo, the name by which it is also known today. The Oquendos were Basques and there were viscounts and marquises among them. María Rebeca de Oquendo, daughter of Don José de la Asunción Oquendo, was its last owner and on her death in 1941 the house became the property of the Caja de Ahorros de Lima. It was declared a National Monument in 1963. During the government of Juan Velasco Alvarado it was the headquarters of the National Tourism Company of Peru, which at that time was the official agency for tourism in Peru. Through Law Decree No. 22677, published in the Official Gazette El Peruano on September 11, 1979, it became the site of the Centro Cultural Inca Garcilaso de la Vega where cultural institutions such as the Peruvian Institute of Hispanic Culture and the Hispanic-Peruvian Feminine Circle. It was restored between 1982 and 1985 respecting its original color, which was indigo blue. It is the venue for cultural events, such as the Lima Photography Biennial, and others related to the life of the city of Lima. It is currently the headquarters of the Peruvian Academy of Language and the regional office in Peru of the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture. Facade The façade of the Casa de Osambela is of Neoclassical and Rococo styles. It shows five balconies, in the Louis XVI style, adorned with garlands and accompanied by three parapet balconies. At the top it has a lookout point covered by a small dome with a Mudéjar silhouette. On it the architect Héctor Velarde Bergmann points out: Interior Its architectural style is a fusion of those that followed up to that time, highlighting the French influence of Rococo in the decoration. The Casa de Osambela draws the attention of scholars for two peculiarities that distinguished it from the rest of the Lima constructions of the time. In the first place, unlike the majority of colonial houses in Lima, the rooms of the house are distributed parallel to the street, which makes its façade large enough to accommodate five box-and-box balconies. In the same way, the distribution of its courtyards was the other way around, differentiating itself from the rest of the constructions