College of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Primer Colegio Nacional Benemérito de la República Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe
Location
Avenida Alfonso Ugarte s/n, Lima, Lima

Peru
Information
MottoGuadalupe, Crisol y antorcha de peruanidad
(Guadalupe, Crucible and torch of Peruvianness)
Religious affiliation(s)Secular
Established14 November 1840 (1840-11-14)
FoundersDomingo Elías, Nicolás Rodrigo
School districtUGEL 03 – Lima
DirectorDr. Oscar Walter Tello Rodríguez
GenderMale
LanguageSpanish
Colour(s)
  Celeste
Websitecolegioguadalupe.edu.pe

The College of Our Lady of Guadalupe[lower-alpha 1] is a secular public education school in Lima, Peru. Originally founded on Chacarilla Street in the Guadalupe neighbourhood on November 14, 1840,[2] it moved in 1909 to its current location on Alfonso Ugarte Avenue, built during the government of Augusto B. Leguía.[3]

The college has played an important function in the doctrinal, intellectual and political life of Peru.[4] Many of its alumni have stood out in different professional fields.[5]

Administration

The main facilities of the school, located in the Historic Centre of Lima, are considered part of the Cultural heritage of Peru, therefore its physical administration depends on the coordination between the corresponding departments of the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education. Inside its facilities, it has the chapel, the gymnasium, four patios each with classrooms around it, a central patio around which the library, the computer room, and the administrative offices are located. Each of these spaces has a second floor that was once used as a boarding school. In its classrooms, secondary education is provided to more than 1,400 students.

A stadium, known as the Estadio Guadalupano, is located in the district of San Martín de Porres, also in Lima, it is intended for physical culture and the practice of sports. It has two regulation size soccer fields, one of which has bleachers on the western side and an athletic track. In addition, it has a swimming pool and three sports slabs, dressing rooms, among other services.

Asociación Guadalupana

The Asociación Guadalupana is the official institution for the school's graduates.

In 1940, commemorating the first centennial of the school's foundation, the various classes met in the Campus Assembly Hall and under the presidency of Melitón Porras Osores, the various commissions that would shape the new institution were named. It was up to Francisco Tudela y Varela, a figure in Peruvian diplomacy, to preside over the organising commission of the association.

An office was provisionally rented as headquarters, located in the Hidalgo Building No. 138 in the Plaza San Martín. The Association later moved to its new headquarters located at Calle Belén No. 1074, in the centre of the city of Lima. This mansion witnessed great civic-cultural and patriotic events attended by ministers of states, as well as presidents of the Republic, such as Dr. Manuel Prado y Ugarteche and the architect Fernando Belaúnde Terry.

The alumni association has its main headquarters on Alfonso Ugarte Avenue in Lima, just two blocks from the school. This new location was achieved thanks to the work of engineer Alejandro Bertello Bollati, class "G21" of 1921, who donated the aforementioned location, and who was lifelong president of the association. The premises were inaugurated in 1960 with the assistance of the President of the Republic, Manuel Prado Ugarteche. The association also officially has its Alumni branch in the United States of America, founded under the presidency of Dr. Pedro Ruiz.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Known in Spanish by its official name: Primer Colegio Nacional Benemérito de la República Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe,[1] as well as with the names of Institución Educativa Emblemática Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe or Primer Colegio Nacional Benemérito y Patrimonio de la Educación del Perú de "Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe".

References

  1. ↑ "Historia de nuestro colegio". Colegio Guadalupe.
  2. ↑ "En el colegio de Guadalupe". Variedades. Vol. 10, no. 312. 1914-02-21. pp. 276–280.
  3. ↑ Batalla, Carlos (2022-11-14). "Colegio Guadalupe: aniversario 182 del centro educativo más antiguo de Lima | Actual local funciona desde 1909". El Comercio.
  4. ↑ Basadre 2004, p. 144.
  5. ↑ Tauro 2001, p. 707-709.

Bibliography

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