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, where many of the most affluent citizens of the city and most powerful men around the world would meet. Subsequently, with the deterioration of the center of Lima, the Jirón de la Unión lost its aristocratic character and became completely commercialized.
Jirón de la Unión
The third block of the Jiron de la Union in the 1930s.
A view of the Club Nacional located on the ninth block of the Jirón de la Unión or the Plaza San Martin
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 established by the Peruvian government in 1972, and the second one—contained within the first one—is the World Heritage Site established by UNESCO in 1988, whose buildings are marked with the organisation's black-and-white shield.
The Cathedral of Lima located in the main square of the historic center
Image: Palacio de Torre Tagle
Image: Vista aérea de la plaza de Acho en 2021
Image: Palacio Arzobispal, Lima, Perú, 2015 07 28, DD 62
