{{Short description|Avenue in Lima, Peru}} {{Infobox street | name = Tacna Avenue | image = SantuarioStaRosa2010001.jpg | caption = The [[Sanctuary of Saint Rose of Lima]] | part_of = [[Damero de Pizarro]] | namesake = [[Tacna]] | terminus_a = [[Puente Santa Rosa]] | terminus_b = [[Avenida Nicolás de Piérola]] | junction = [[Jirón Conde de Superunda|Jirón Lima]], [[Jirón Callao]], [[Jirón Ica]], [[Jirón Huancavelica]] [[Avenida Emancipación]], [[Jirón Moquegua]], [[Jirón Ocoña]] | completion_date = 1535 }} '''Tacna Avenue''' ({{langx|es|Avenida Tacna}}), formerly '''Jirón Tacna''', is one of the main [[Avenue (landscape)|avenues]] that surround the [[Damero de Pizarro]] in the [[historic centre of Lima]], [[Peru]]. It starts at the [[Puente Santa Rosa]],<ref>{{Cite news |title=Santa Rosa de Lima: la historia del estreno del puente al final de la Av. Tacna que lleva su nombre |url=https://elcomercio.pe/archivo-elcomercio/imponente-inauguracion-del-puente-santa-rosa-sucedio-hace-60-anos-centro-de-lima-rimac-noticia/ |last=García |first=Miguel |date=2022-08-30 |work=[[El Comercio (Peru)|El Comercio]]}}</ref> and continues until it reaches [[Wilson Avenue, Lima|Wilson]] and [[Avenida Nicolás de Piérola|La Colmena]] avenues. It is prolonged to the south for two blocks and to the north until it reaches Rímac Avenue in [[San Juan de Lurigancho]].
==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 Tacna''', after the [[Tacna|city of the same name]].<ref>{{Cite AV media |title=Conoce la historia de la avenida Tacna |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruNinWiRefM |date=2021-08-18 |type=Motion picture |language=es |publisher=[[Municipalidad de Lima]] |series=Lima te cuenta}}</ref> Prior to this renaming, each block (''cuadra'') had a unique name: *Block 1: '''Manita''', for reasons not known. According to [[Ricardo Palma]], a waving hand, in reality an [[optical illusion]], guided people there.{{sfn|Bromley|2019|p=291}}<ref>{{Cite book |title=Tradiciones Peruanas |last=Palma |first=Ricardo |publisher=Librería Internacional del Perú, Imprenta López |year= |location=Buenos Aires |pages=227 |language=es |volume=3 |chapter=La calle de la manita |author-link=Ricardo Palma |title-link=Peruvian Traditions}}</ref> *Block 2: '''Mantequería/Borriqueras''', after the [[lard]]-selling stores and the [[donkey]] [[stable]]s there, respectively.{{sfn|Bromley|2019|p=293}} *Block 3: '''Comesebo''', for reasons not known.{{sfn|Bromley|2019|p=239}} *Block 4: '''Pileta de las Nazarenas''', after the [[fountain]] formerly located there that belonged to the [[Sanctuary and Monastery of Las Nazarenas]].{{sfn|Bromley|2019|p=346}} *Block 5: '''Huevo''', for reasons not known.{{sfn|Bromley|2019|p=273}}
During the 20th century, the road underwent a major renovation after the [[1940 Lima earthquake]], becoming an avenue.<ref>{{Cite news |title=La historia de la avenida Tacna |url=https://archivo.trome.pe/familia/historia-avenida-tacna-1687226 |date=2014-01-31 |work=[[Trome]]}}</ref> The [[Sanctuary of Saint Rose of Lima]] had a section demolished to make way for the renovations in 1959.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://blog.pucp.edu.pe/blog/labibliotecamarquense/2011/08/10/la-iglesia-santa-rosa-y-la-ampliacion-de-la-avenida-tacna/ |title=La iglesia Santa Rosa y la ampliación de la Avenida Tacna |date=2011-08-10 |website=[[Blog PUCP]] |last=Gamarra Galindo |first=Marco}}</ref> The nearby [[Sanctuary and Monastery of Las Nazarenas]] suffered a similar fate.{{sfn|Pino|2017|p=6}} As a result of the renovations, new highrise buildings started to be built in the avenue. The ''Gildemeister & Co.'' building, built in 1928 as the first skyscraper in Lima, paled in comparison to the new construction projects of the post-1940 period.{{sfn|Pino|2017|p=7–8}} The [[Edificio Tacna-Colmena]] is located at the end of the avenue, and takes its name from both avenues.{{sfn|Pino|2017|p=14}}
The intersection with Emancipación Avenue is the location of the Edificio Oropeza, an incomplete building that has been abandoned for over three decades,<ref>{{Cite news |title=¿Has visto este edificio abandonado en la av. Tacna? Conoce su dramática historia |url=https://larepublica.pe/datos-lr/respuestas/2022/07/18/la-dramatica-historia-del-edificio-abandonado-en-la-av-tacna-con-emancipacion-que-lleva-mas-de-30-anos-en-juicio-evat |last=Dextre |first=Cecilia |date=2023-06-19 |work=[[La República]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=La triste historia del edificio abandonado en la Av. Tacna con Emancipación que lleva más de 30 años en juicio |url=https://elpopular.pe/actualidad/2022/07/13/historia-edificio-abandonado-av-tacna-emancipacion-lleva-30-anos-juicio-139232 |last=Lozano |first=Madeley |date=2022-08-21 |work=El Popular}}</ref> as well as that of a [[Tacna (Metropolitano)|station of the same name]] of the [[Metropolitano (Lima)|Metropolitano bus system]].
==See also== *[[Historic Centre of Lima]]
==References== {{reflist}}
===Bibliography=== *{{Cite book |title=Las viejas calles de Lima |last=Bromley Seminario |first=Juan |publisher=[[Metropolitan Municipality of Lima]] |year=2019 |location=Lima |language=es |url=https://www.munlima.gob.pe/images/las-viejas-calles-de-lima.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200420211756/https://www.munlima.gob.pe/images/las-viejas-calles-de-lima.pdf |archive-date=20 April 2020 |ref={{sfnref|Bromley|2019}} |author-link=Juan Bromley}} *{{Cite book |title=Historia y Arquitectura de las Avenidas Tacna y Wilson |last=Pino |first=David |publisher=Lima La Única |year=2017 |language=es |url=https://www.academia.edu/35304249/HISTORIA_Y_ARQUITECTURA_DE_LAS_AVENIDAS_TACNA_Y_WILSON}}
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