Jirón Quilca is a major

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in the

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, located in the

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. The street starts at its intersection with the

Jirón de la Unión The Jirón de la Unión, or Union Street, is a pedestrian street located in the Historic Centre of Lima, part of the capital of Peru. For many decades it was the most important boulevards of the city, often described as the most aristocratic, wh ...

and continues until it reaches

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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 Quilca, after the

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. Prior to this renaming, each block (''cuadra'') had a unique name: *Block 1: Iturrizaga, after Bernardo de Iturrizara y Mansilla. *Block 2: San Jacinto, after the chapel of the same name that existed in the 17th century. In 1857, the first gas factory for public lighting was built in this area. *Block 3: Alfareros, after the various clay article making shops that existed during the viceroyalty. During the economic crisis of the 1980s, both Quilca and

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streets became known for their book stores, which sold

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books and

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s at an affordable price. The leasing contract between these stores and the

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, effective since 1997, expired in 2016. A known place is the ''Bar Queirolo'', a restaurant in the street's corner with Camaná. In the early morning of October 27, 2018, the Giacoletti Building, located on the street's first block, was damaged by a

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that lasted three hours. The building has remained empty since, still in a dilapidated state and without final demolition or reconstruction due to bureaucratic obstacles and financing problems. Currently, only the outer part of the building remains, although plans to rebuild it have been proposed.

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