Jirón Lampa is a major

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in the Damero de Pizarro, located in the

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. The street starts at its intersection with the Jirón de la Unión and continues until it reaches the Paseo de la República.

History

The road that today constitutes the street was laid by

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when he founded the city of Lima on January 18, 1535. In 1862, when a new urban nomenclature was adopted, the road was named jirón Lampa. Prior to this renaming, each block (''cuadra'') had a unique name: *Block 1: Soledad, after a chapel of the same name. *Block 2: Santo Toribio, after the school of the same name. *Block 3: Santa Apolonia, after the chapel of the same name. *Block 4: Carrera, after a bakery owned by Pedro Carrera. *Block 5: Picantería, possibly after a food establishment of the same type. *Block 6: San Antonio, after the counts of San Antonio de Vistaalegre, who lived there. *Block 7: Pileta de la Trinidad, after the fountain of the same name. *Block 8: Fano, after a neighbour not conclusively identified. One of the residents here was Dr. Manuel Atanasio Fuentes, whose home was the place where the members of the wartime government of

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met. *Block 9: Pobres, after its early inhabitants: people of low income. *Block 10: Cádices, after the family of Miguel de Cádiz, who lived there. *Block 11: Sauce, possibly after a

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located there. On July 28, 2000, amid the protests known as the Four Quarters March, a fire began inside the building of the Bank of the Nation, located in the intersection with La Colmena Avenue. Despite claims by

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Walter Chacón of the opposite, the fire was caused by an

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on the building's third floor which caused the structural integrity of the building's lower floors to be compromised, causing them to collapse and worsen the gravity of the situation. As a result, 6 security guards were killed in fire.

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Lima District Historic Centre of Lima

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