Jirón Azángaro is a major

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in the

Damero de Pizarro The Cercado de Lima ('Walled Lima'), Damero de Pizarro ('Pizarro's Checkerboard'), or Lima Cuadrada ('Squared Lima') is an area of the Historic Centre of Lima, historic center of Lima (capital of Peru) located within the Walls of Lima, old wall ...

, located in the

historic centre of Lima The Historic Centre of Lima () is the historic city centre of the city of Lima, the capital of Peru. Located in the city's districts of Lima and Rímac, both in the Rímac Valley, it consists of two areas: the first is the Monumental Zone est ...

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. The street starts at its intersection with the

Jirón Áncash Jirón Áncash is a major street in the Damero de Pizarro, located in the historic centre of Lima, Peru. The street starts at its intersection with the Jirón de la Unión at the Puente de Piedra, and continues until it reaches the Óvalo de la Pa ...

and continues until it reaches Jirón Manuel Aljovín, next to the Palace of Justice. It is home to a number of government buildings, such as the

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(headquarters of the

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), and also houses restaurants and

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History

The road that today constitutes the street was laid by

Francisco Pizarro Francisco Pizarro, Marquess of the Atabillos (; ; – 26 June 1541) was a Spanish ''conquistador'', best known for his expeditions that led to the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. Born in Trujillo, Cáceres, Trujillo, Spain, to a poor fam ...

when he founded the city of Lima on January 18, 1535. In the 16th century, the Church of San Francisco was built. In 1862, when a new urban nomenclature was adopted, the road was named jirón Azángaro, after

Azángaro Province Azángaro is a town in Southern Peru, capital of the province Azángaro in the region of Puno. Instituto Nacional de Estadística e InformáticaBanco de Información Digital, Retrieved January 6, 2008 The colonial church in Azangaro is known as ...

. Prior to this renaming, each block (''cuadra'') had a unique name: *Block 1: Aparicio, after the surname of either Lorenzo José or Manuel Martínez de Aparicio. *Block 2: Aldabas, after a house with peculiar

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s (

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: ''aldabas''), their peculiarness being a sign that other knockers around the city were manufactured there. *Block 3: Beytia, after the street's inhabitants of the same name. *Block 4: Gato, after ''

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'' Francisco Alvárez Gato, who lived there. *Block 5: Negreyros, after the noble family of the same name, who lived there. *Block 6: Juan Pablo, after a neighbour of the same name, possibly Juan Pablo Messía, according to Luis A. Eguiguren. *Block 7: Huérfanos, after the church of the same name. *Block 8: San Carlos. *Block 9: Noviciado, after the novitiate of Saint Anthony the Abbot, located there. *Block 10: Guadalupe, after the church of the same name. Once the adjacent school was suppressed, it became a

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; both buildings were ultimately demolished to build the Palace of Justice. *Block 11: Buenaventura, after the

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school of the same name. The art deco-style Gildemeister Building was built from 1927 to 1928, becoming one of the first five-storey buildings of the city, and the most representative of its time. It was named after ''Gildemeister y Cía.'', a

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company that operated in the Casa Grande hacienda of La Libertad. Also located in the street is the 1,500 m² Casa Elguera, built 1862–1865 and located in the former Aldabas street, in the corner with

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. Originally bought by Francisco Tamayo de Mendoza y Navarra, Marquis of Villahermosa de San José, in 1690, its current construction dates from the mid-19th century, built by landowner Buenaventura Elguera. The republican ''Finca de la calle de Aldabas'', located in the former streets of Santa Apolonia and Melchormalo, was the property of the Monastery of the Conception, sold to Ana Inclán in 1747. After her death, the Marquis of Villa Blanca, Antonio de Mena, acquired it in 1778. The convent owned the property until 1862, when the

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acquired it. In 2014 and 2015, a number of

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s took place on the street where

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documents were

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by criminals. As of 2023, said businesses continued to operate, selling false

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s to foreigners in Peru.

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* {{Lima streets Azangaro Lima District Historic Centre of Lima

History

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