Jirón Santa Rosa
| Jirón Antonio Miró Quesada | |
Headquarters of El Comercio | |
| Part of | Damero de Pizarro |
|---|---|
| Namesake | Saint Rose of Lima |
| From | Jirón de la Unión |
| Major junctions | Jirón Carabaya, Jirón Lampa, Jirón Azángaro, Abancay Avenue |
| To | Miguel Grau Avenue |
| Construction | |
| Completion | 1535 |
Santa Rosa Street (Spanish: Jirón Santa Rosa), known from 1949 until 2017 as Antonio Miró Quesada Street (Spanish: Jirón Antonio Miró Quesada), 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 Miguel Grau Avenue.
Name
The street is named after Rose of Lima. In 1862, due to the new urban nomenclature the city adopted, it was first known as Ayacucho Street (Spanish: Jirón Ayacucho),[a][2][3] after the Department of Ayacucho.[4] From 1949 to 2017, it was named after Antonio Miró Quesada de la Guerra, director of El Comercio—a newspaper whose building is on the street's second block—who was assassinated alongside his wife in 1935.[2]
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 Ayacucho, after the Department of Ayacucho. Prior to this renaming, each block (cuadra) had a unique name:
- Block 1: Jesús Nazareno, after the chapel of the same name.[5]
- Block 2: Núñez, after Dr. Miguel Núñez (Lima, 1646 — Madrid, ?), who lived there.[6]
- Block 3: Rifa, after a raffle establishment located there.[7]
- Block 4: Botica de San Pedro, after a pharmacy run by the Jesuits.[8]
- Block 5: Aduana[9]
- Block 6: Santa Rosa de las Monjas, after the monastery located there.[10]
- Block 7: Rectora, for reasons unknown.[11]
- Block 8: Siete Jeringas, after either a curandero or its proximity to the Royal Hospital of Saint Andrew[12]
- Block 9: San Bartolomé, after a hospital of the same name, later the Military Hospital.[13]
- Block 10: Huaquilla, after a huaca located there.[14]
- Block 11: Naranjos, after an orange field located there.[15]
- Block 13: Ancha/Cinco Esquinas, for its width in comparison to other streets at the time, and for reaching a point where five corners are located, respectively.[16]
The Edificio Fabbri, whose construction concluded in 1890, is located in the street. During the 17th century, it belonged to the heirs of Pedro Gavilán y González de la Torre, thus acquiring the name of the "Casa de los Gavilanes".[b] It was acquired in 1867 by the Peruvian State to house its official printing press, organised by Manuel Atanasio Fuentes.[17]
The street was renamed following a ceremony on April 7, 1949, in honour of Antonio Miró Quesada de la Guerra.[18][19][20] This name remained until 2017, when it was renamed in honour of Saint Rose of Lima by the Municipality of Lima.[2]
In 2016, four houses collapsed in the street's 12th block, affecting 13 families living there.[21][22]
See also
Notes
- ^ This name has since been applied to a street in Barrios Altos formerly known as Urubamba Street (Spanish: Jirón Urubamba).[1]
- ^ A play-on-words on the heirs' family name, Gavilán, which is also a type of bird in Spanish.
References
- ^ "Declaran cuadra 5 del jirón Ayacucho como bien integrante del Patrimonio Cultural de la Nación". Andina. 2009-10-05.
- ^ a b c "Municipalidad de Lima cambia nombre de Jr. Miró Quesada por el de Santa Rosa". El Comercio. 2017-08-23.
- ^ Batalla, Carlos (2022-12-31). "Hace 100 años: ¿cómo se inició el cuidado moderno de las mujeres embarazadas en el Perú?". El Comercio.
- ^ Bromley Seminario 2019, p. 136.
- ^ Bromley Seminario 2019, p. 275–278.
- ^ Bromley Seminario 2019, p. 328–329.
- ^ Bromley Seminario 2019, p. 374.
- ^ Bromley Seminario 2019, p. 210–212.
- ^ Bromley Seminario 2019, p. 173–174.
- ^ Bromley Seminario 2019, p. 396–397.
- ^ Bromley Seminario 2019, p. 372–373.
- ^ Bromley Seminario 2019, p. 402.
- ^ Bromley Seminario 2019, p. 381.
- ^ Bromley Seminario 2019, p. 271.
- ^ Bromley Seminario 2019, p. 321–322.
- ^ Bromley Seminario 2019, p. 185, 231.
- ^ Planas, Enrique. "Las casonas del Centro de Lima". El Comercio.
- ^ Coloma Porcari, César (1997). La Ciudad de los Reyes y la "Guía del viajero en Lima" de Manuel Atanasio Fuentes (in Spanish). Instituto Latinoamericano de Cultura y Desarrollo. p. 84. ISBN 978-9972-676-00-0.
- ^ Miró-Quesada Rada, Francisco (2017-09-14). "Jirón Miró Quesada". El Comercio.
- ^ "En imponente ceremonia cívica se bautizó ayer el jirón "Antonio Miró Quesada" [via "El Siglo XX en el Perú a través de El Comercio: 1941"]". El Comercio. 1949-04-08.
- ^ "Cuatro casas se derrumban y otras nueve están en riesgo inminente en Barrios Altos". Andina. 2016-08-09.
- ^ "Derrumbe en Barrios Altos deja 13 familias damnificadas". El Comercio. 2016-08-09.
Bibliography
- Bromley Seminario, Juan (2019). Las viejas calles de Lima (PDF) (in Spanish). Lima: Metropolitan Municipality of Lima. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-04-20. Retrieved 2023-12-22.