Jirón Trujillo is an important

street A street is a public thoroughfare in a city, town or village, typically lined with Building, buildings on one or both sides. Streets often include pavements (sidewalks), pedestrian crossings, and sometimes amenities like Street light, streetligh ...

Rímac District Rímac (pronunciation: ), known until the 19th century as the neighbourhood of San Lázaro, is a district in the Lima Province, Peru. It lies directly to the north of downtown Lima, to which it is connected by six bridges over the Rímac River. ...

, part of 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 the

Puente de Piedra The Bridge of Stone () is a 17th-century bridge in Lima, Peru, that connects the districts of Lima and Rímac, both part of the city's historic centre. Built by architect An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construc ...

, where it is continued on the other side of the

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by 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 ...

(with which it forms part of the historic centre's main axis), and continues until it reaches the Alameda de los Bobos. It therefore joins the so-called monumental zones of both Rímac and

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districts.

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 ...

during the foundation of

. Prior to the nomenclature adapted in 1861, it was simply known as its entirety as the street that joined the

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with the Church of Saint Lazarus. Prior to this renaming, each block (cuadra) had a unique name: *Block 1: Puente, after the bridge next to it. It is the shortest block of the street, and it formerly housed a

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that lasted until the 19th century. *Block 2: Capilla, after the ermitage—today church—of Our Lady of the Rosary. *Block 3: Queipo, after an unidentified neighbour. *Block 4: San Lázaro, after the church of the same name. It was previously known as Montero, possibly after a surname. *Block 5: Matamoros, after the surname, whose bearer has not been definitively identified. *Block 6: Puente Amaya, after a surname. *Block 7: Puente de Soga, after a rudimentary bridge. *Block 8: Pedregal, after the rocky terrain of the area. A

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was inaugurated by then president

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in 2009, as part of a remodelling programme that targeted the district. The works consisted of improvement of the roads, the painting of the buildings' façades and the cleaning of their roofs. The street is the location of the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, the country's smallest church, surrounded by buildings with their characteristic balconies.

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