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Jirón Santa Rosa

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

Jirón Santa Rosa, known as Jirón Antonio Miró Quesada (until 2017)^[1] and as Jirón Ayacucho before that,^[1][2] 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.

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.^[3]
• Block 2: Núñez, after Dr. Miguel Núñez (Lima, 1646 — Madrid, ?), who lived there.^[4]
• Block 3: Rifa, after a raffle establishment located there.^[5]
• Block 4: Botica de San Pedro, after a pharmacy run by the Jesuits.^[6]
• Block 5: Aduana^[7]
• Block 6: Santa Rosa de las Monjas, after the monastery located there.^[8]
• Block 7: Rectora, for reasons unknown.^[9]
• Block 8: Siete Jeringas, after either a curandero or its proximity to the Royal Hospital of Saint Andrew^[10]
• Block 9: San Bartolomé, after a hospital of the same name, later the Military Hospital.^[11]
• Block 10: Huaquilla, after a huaca located there.^[12]
• Block 11: Naranjos, after an orange field located there.^[13]
• 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.^[14]

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" (a play-on-words on the heirs' family name). It was acquired in 1867 by the Peruvian State to house its official printing press, organised by Manuel Atanasio Fuentes [es].^[15]

From the 1930s until 2017, the street was renamed Miro Quesada^[16] in honour of Antonio Miró Quesada de la Guerra.^[17] This name remained until 2017, when it was renamed in honour of Saint Rose of Lima by the Municipality of Lima.^[1]

In 2016, four houses collapsed in the street's 12th block, affecting 13 families living there.^[18][19]

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• 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.