Casa-Museo de Pizarro
This small museum occupies a house at the top of the old town where the young Francisco Pizarro is said to have lived. It doesn’t tell you a great deal about the early life of Trujillo’s most famous son, but the ground floor is an interesting recreation of a modest 15th-century Extremaduran home. The upstairs floor is dedicated to Pizarro’s exploits in Latin America, with timelines, relief maps, and scraps of the Incan culture he did much to destroy. Famously, he drew a line in the sand with his sword, urging his men to cross it and help him to conquer Peru and get rich. The information is mostly in Spanish, but maps and visual aids make it easy to digest.
This small museum occupies a house at the top of the old town where the young Francisco Pizarro is said to have lived. It doesn’t tell you a great deal about the early life of Trujillo’s most famous son, but the ground floor is an interesting recreation of a modest 15th-century Extremaduran home. The upstairs floor is dedicated to Pizarro’s exploits in Latin America, with timelines, relief maps, and scraps of the Incan culture he did much to destroy. Famously, he drew a line in the sand with his sword, urging his men to cross it and help him to conquer Peru and get rich. The information is mostly in Spanish, but maps and visual aids make it easy to digest.
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