Jirón Santa Rosa

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Jirón Santa Rosa is a major street in Lima’s historic center, part of the Damero de Pizarro. It runs from the intersection with Jirón de la Unión to Miguel Grau Avenue. The street’s current name honors Saint Rose of Lima and reflects Lima’s 2017 renaming of streets; it had previously been known as Jirón Ayacucho, then Jirón Antonio Miró Quesada, named after the newspaper editor who was killed with his wife in 1935. The change to Santa Rosa occurred in 2017. The word jirón refers to a street made up of several connected blocks. The road was laid out by Francisco Pizarro when Lima was founded in 1535, and in 1862 a city-wide naming system changed many streets to geographical names. Each block originally had its own nickname; for example, the Edificio Fabbri on the street, built in 1890, was once known as Casa de los Gavilanes. In 1867 the Peruvian government acquired the street to house its official printing press, organized by Manuel Atanasio Fuentes. In 2016, four houses collapsed in the 12th block, affecting 13 families.