Monument to Peace

The Monument of the Virgin of Peace, was inaugurated on December 21 of the year 1983. Its construction lasted eighteen months. The work was done by the sculptors Manuel de la Fuente and Rosendo Camargo and counted on the collaboration of the Presbyter Juan Francisco Hernández.

The monument is sculpted on a steel structure that is fulfilled The skeleton of the work emptied in concrete, has a weight of one thousand tons distributed in forty-six meters and seventy-two feet in height, measures sixteen meters wide and eighteen meters deep . The head weighs eight tons; has five verandas distributed; The first one in the knees to eighteen meters of height; The second in the left hand to twenty-two meters of height; the third in the right hand in which he keeps the Dove which weighs five tons at a height; the quarter in the waist to twenty-eight meters of height and the fifth in the eyes, to forty and four meters of height; from the viewpoints, most of the Trujillo towns can be seen almost in their entirety,