Jirón Lampa
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{{Short description|Street in Lima, Peru}}
{{Infobox street
| name = Jirón Lampa
| image = Lima, Peru Plaza San Francisco.jpg
| caption = Basilica and Convent of San Francisco and Jirón Áncash, seen from Jr. Lampa
| part_of = Damero de Pizarro
| namesake = Lampa, Peru
| terminus_a = Jirón Amazonas
| terminus_b = Paseo de la República
| junction = Jirón Junín, Jirón Cuzco, La Colmena,
| completion_date = 1535
}}
Jirón Lampa 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 and continues until it reaches the Paseo de la República.
History
The road that today constitutes the street was laid by Francisco Pizarro 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.{{sfn|Bromley Seminario|2019|p=403}}
- Block 2: Santo Toribio, after the school of the same name.{{sfn|Bromley Seminario|2019|p=399–400}}{{Cite web |url=https://especiales.elcomercio.pe/?q=especiales/casonas-del-centro-historico-de-lima-multimedia-nndd/index.html |title=Las casonas del Centro de Lima |website=El Comercio |last=Planas |first=Enrique}}
- Block 3: Santa Apolonia, after the chapel of the same name.{{sfn|Bromley Seminario|2019|p=393}}
- Block 4: Carrera, after a bakery owned by Pedro Carrera.{{sfn|Bromley Seminario|2019|p=225–228}}
- Block 5: Picantería, possibly after a food establishment of the same type.{{sfn|Bromley Seminario|2019|p=345–346}}
- Block 6: San Antonio, after the counts of San Antonio de Vistaalegre, who lived there.{{sfn|Bromley Seminario|2019|p=380}}
- Block 7: Pileta de la Trinidad, after the fountain of the same name.{{sfn|Bromley Seminario|2019|p=347–348}}
- 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 Francisco García Calderón met.{{sfn|Bromley Seminario|2019|p=263–264}}
- Block 9: Pobres, after its early inhabitants: people of low income.{{sfn|Bromley Seminario|2019|p=353}}
- Block 10: Cádices, after the family of Miguel de Cádiz, who lived there.{{sfn|Bromley Seminario|2019|p=217–218}}
- Block 11: Sauce, possibly after a willow located there.{{sfn|Bromley Seminario|2019|p=400}}
On July 28, 2000,{{Cite news |title=El cuerpo de bomberos voluntarios del Perú en la historia |url=https://andina.pe/agencia/galeria.aspx?GaleriaId=5134&FotoId=548106 |date=2018-12-05 |work=Andina}}{{Cite news |title=Estos fueron los incendios más devastadores en Lima en el siglo XXI |url=https://rpp.pe/lima/actualidad/estos-fueron-los-incendios-mas-devastadores-en-lima-en-el-siglo-xxi-noticia-1003544?ref=rpp |date=2016-11-16 |work=RPP Noticias}} 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 Minister of the Interior Walter Chacón of the opposite, the fire was caused by an explosion 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.{{Cite news |title=Sí, hubo explosión: Ocurrió en el tercer piso y provocó caida parcial del edificio del Banco de la Nación |date=2000-08-13 |pages=3 |work=La República |quote=La explosión en el tercer piso habría provocado la destrucción de las paredes, el rompimiento de las columnas y el desmoronamiento de los techos. El incendio no pudo causar tal desastre.}} As a result, 6 security guards were killed in fire.{{Cite news |title=Sentencian a 10 años de prisión efectiva a Montesinos por muerte de vigilantes del Banco de la Nación |url=https://andina.pe/agencia/noticia.aspx?id=250747 |date=2009-08-27 |work=Andina}}
See also
References
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=Bibliography=
- {{Cite book |title=Las viejas calles de Lima |last=Bromley Seminario |first=Juan |publisher=Metropolitan Municipality of Lima |year=2019 |location=Lima |language=es |url=https://www.munlima.gob.pe/images/las-viejas-calles-de-lima.pdf |author-link=Juan Bromley |access-date=2023-12-22 |archive-date=2020-04-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200420211756/https://www.munlima.gob.pe/images/las-viejas-calles-de-lima.pdf |url-status=dead }}
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