Issue date: 20 Jan, 2014
Personajes. Fray Junípero SerraPOPULAR CHARACTERS
This issue is dedicated to Popular Characters, and commemorates the names of Fray Junípero Serra and the 300th anniversary of his birth; and Pedro Cieza de León, explorer and chronicler of the Indies.
Pedro Cieza de León (Llerena, Badajoz, 1520 – Seville, 1554), came from a wealthy family and left for the Americas as a soldier when he was just 15 years old. He took part with the explorer Alonso de Cáceres in the expedition to San Sebastián de Buenavista and Urate. He also founded the cities of Anserma, Cartago and Antioquia in Colombia with Jorge Robledo. In 1548, he set off for Lima, Peru, where he was appointed official chronicler of the Indies. He travelled round Peru and Bolivia for two years collecting stories and information directly from the indigenous tribes to write his work. On returning to Spain in 1551, he settled in Seville, where he published the First Part of the Chronicle of Peru two years later in 1553. He died the following year, without publishing the rest of the work. The second and third parts of the Chronicle of Peru were published in the 19th and 20th centuries respectively. His work is characterised by its impartiality and, as well as history, there is an in-depth description of the geography, ethnography, flora and fauna of the Andes.
The stamp depicts a sculpture of the chronicler and the symbol of a pen, with the square of the Plaza del Ayuntamiento in Llerena, Badajoz in the background
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