Jirón Lampa

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.
 * Block 2: Santo Toribio, after the school of the same name.
 * Block 3: Santa Apolonia, after the chapel of the same name.
 * Block 4: Carrera, after a bakery owned by Pedro Carrera.
 * Block 5: Picantería, possibly after a food establishment of the same type.
 * Block 6: San Antonio, after the counts of San Antonio de Vistaalegre, who lived there.
 * Block 7: Pileta de la Trinidad, after the fountain of the same name.
 * 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.
 * Block 9: Pobres, after its early inhabitants: people of low income.
 * Block 10: Cádices, after the family of Miguel de Cádiz, who lived there.
 * Block 11: Sauce, possibly after a willow located there.

On July 28, 2000, 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. As a result, 6 security guards were killed in fire.