Panteón de los Próceres

The Panteón de los Próceres is a crypt inside the old Church of the Real Convictorio de San Carlos that holds the remains of the heroes of the Peruvian War of Independence.

The Church originally belonged to the Jesuit novitiate of San Antonio Abad, but it was transferred after the Jesuits were expelled from Spanish territories. The Church was rebuilt after the 1746 Lima–Callao earthquake leveled Lima, and in 1876 it became the Chapel of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. In 1924, the remains of various heroes of the wars of independence were transferred to a crypt just under the altar and the Church was renamed "Panteón de los Proceres".