{{Short description|Former building in Lima, Peru}} {{Infobox building | name = Casa Marsano | native_name = Casona Marsano, Palacio Marsano | native_name_lang = Spanish | image = Municipalidad de Miraflores - Palacio Marsano (7456990100).jpg | image_size = 250 | caption = The building in 1946 | location = [[Miraflores District, Lima]] | address = [[Avenida Arequipa|Av. Arequipa]] 50 | architectural_style = [[Louis XVI style|French-inspired]] | construction_start_date = | construction_stop_date = 1941 | inauguration_date = 1941 | demolished_date = 2002 | owner = Tomás Marsano<br>Perú Real State | architect = | cost = }} The '''Casa Marsano''', also known as the '''Marsano Palace''' ({{langx|es|Palacio Marsano}}), was a palace in [[Miraflores District, Lima]].
==History== The site of the building was located in [[Miraflores District, Lima|Miraflores]], a district of [[Lima]] which [[Battle of Miraflores|had been affected]] by the [[War of the Pacific]]. By the late 19th century and early 20th century, the district began to grow, as immigrants, notably of [[Italian Peruvians|italian origin]], began to populate the district.<ref name=adeprin>{{Cite news |title=La Casa Marsano. ¿Un palacio de Verano? |url=https://www.adeprin.org/la-casa-marsano-un-palacio-de-verano/ |last=Botto Cayo |first=José Carlos |date=2022-10-05 |work=Asociación para el Desarrollo Profesional Interdisciplinario}}</ref>
The building was built to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the marriage between Tomás Marsano, son of a [[Genoa|Genoese]] father, and Clotilde Campodónico Crovetto, herself born in Genoa, who married in Lima on December 2, 1894. The house was inaugurated in 1941, the same year it finished construction.<ref name=adeprin/><ref name=Pino>{{Cite news |title=La Casa Marsano |url=http://www.limalaunica.pe/2012/03/la-casa-marsano.html |last=Pino |first=David |date=2012-03-21 |work=Lima La Única}}</ref>
On March 17, 1988, the palace hosted a [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] [[music concert]] headed by local bands ''Orgus'', ''Sacra'' and ''Masacre''.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Orgus, 30 años de los Guerreros del Metal |url=http://blogs.peru21.pe/resistencia21/2015/07/orgus-30-anos-de-los-guerreros.html |last=Boggiano de las Casas |first=Franco |date=2015-07-28 |work=[[Perú 21|Resistencia21]] |archive-date=2022-07-08 |access-date=2023-01-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220708225353/http://blogs.peru21.pe/resistencia21/2015/07/orgus-30-anos-de-los-guerreros.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Un himno de la banda Orgus en versión de Ni Voz Ni Voto |url=https://elcomercio.pe/luces/musica/himno-banda-orgus-version-voz-voto-178221-noticia/ |last=Valdizán |first=Rafael |date=2014-10-07 |work=[[El Comercio (Peru)|El Comercio]]}}</ref>
===Demolition=== The building was not declared as a historical monument by the [[National Institute of Culture]], as then director César Coloma opposed its inscription due to modernity of the building and due to it not being of a "Peruvian [architectural] style" and, consequently, it "did not contribute to local architecture." It was controversially demolished in 2002 and its ''[[hacienda]]'' was replaced by the ''Compu Palace'' shopping centre and the Marsano Theatre (March 1928) and Building (after 1944; officially known as the ''Residencial Miranda''<ref>{{Cite news |title=El Marsano: un edificio-barrio |url=https://cosas.pe/de-fondo/218168/el-marsano-un-edificio-barrio/ |last=Abusada |first=Eduardo |work=Cosas}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=El Bulevar Marsano, un nuevo espacio en Miraflores para el ocio y las compras |url=https://archivo.elcomercio.pe/sociedad/lima/bulevar-marsano-nuevo-espacio-miraflores-ocio-compras-noticia-623295 |last=Bertello |first=Úrsula |date=2010-08-14 |work=[[El Comercio (Peru)|El Comercio]]}}</ref>).<ref name=Pino/><ref>{{Cite news |title=Bicentenario: edificios con Historia |url=https://revistaspatium.pe/actualidades/edificios-con-historia/ |last=Alvizuri |first=Alberto |date=2021-09-01 |work=Spatium}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=EDIFICIO LIMATAMBO. SIN LUGAR PARA LA MEMORIA |last=Bustamante Pacheco |first=María Alejandra |publisher=Universidad de Lima |year=2017 |edition=1st |location=Lima |pages=182 |language=es |url=https://revistas.ulima.edu.pe/index.php/Limaq/article/download/967/923/ |last2=Ureta Córdova |first2=Juan Marco |last3=Hung Arrunátegui |first3=Pamela Carolina |last4=Scudere Cárdenas |first4=Ana Belén |last5=Florián Holguín |first5=Cynthia Estefanía |work=Situación del patrimonio moderno en Lima: Análisis de casos}}</ref>
==See also== *[[Edificio Limatambo]], another well-known building whose demolition was also met with controversy
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{{Landmarks in Lima}}
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