{{Short description|Street in Lima, Peru}} {{Infobox street | name = Pasaje Olaya | image = Jose olaya Lima Peru.jpg | caption = The street's statue | part_of = [[Damero de Pizarro]] | namesake = [[José Olaya]] | terminus_a = [[Jirón Huallaga]] | terminus_b = [[Jirón Ucayali]] | completion_date = 1535 }} '''Pasaje José Olaya''' is a [[pedestrian street|pedestrian alleyway]] located in the [[Damero de Pizarro]], next to the [[Plaza Mayor, Lima|Plaza Mayor]] of [[Lima]], [[Peru]]. It is the location of a statue of the same name, which was declared part of the [[Cultural heritage of Peru]] alongside the other statues located within the [[historic centre of Lima]] in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.gob.pe/institucion/cultura/normas-legales/203967-053-2018-vmpcic-mc |title=Resolución Viceministerial N.° 053-2018-VMPCIC-MC |date=2018-04-24 |website=[[Gob.pe]]}}</ref>
==History== The alleyway dates back to the foundation of the city, taking several names throughout its history. It was originally called the ''Cajellón de la Cruz'' due to it being the location of a [[cross]] used to punish [[criminal]]s in its exit towards the [[Plaza Mayor, Lima|Plaza Mayor]]. By 1613, it took the name ''Callejón de los Sombrereros'' due to the number of [[hat]]-selling businesses there, alternatively called the ''Callejón de los Mercaderes''.{{sfn|Bromley Seminario|2019|p=344}} One of its merchants, Juan Fernández de la Higuera, was the namesake for block 2 of nearby [[Jirón Cuzco]].{{sfn|Bromley Seminario|2019|p=270}} It also took the name ''Callejón de los Clérigos'' at one point.{{sfn|Bromley Seminario|2019|p=344}} Its last name after independence, ''Callejón de Petateros'', had existed since the late 18th century.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Córdova Tábori |first=Lilia |date=2021-04-23 |title=Así lucía el pasaje José Olaya en 1960 |language=es-PE |work=El Comercio |url=https://elcomercio.pe/archivo-elcomercio/grafico/asi-lucia-el-pasaje-jose-olaya-en-1960-noticia/ |access-date=2023-12-21 |issn=1605-3052}}</ref>
On June 29, 1823, [[José Olaya]], a rebel supporter that acted as a secret emissary during the [[Peruvian War of Independence]] was caught and [[executed by firing squad]] on the site by the [[Royal Army of Peru]] for treason.
===Planned avenue=== Starting in 1901, due to the poor conditions at the alleyway (now the ''Pasaje 28 de Julio'' or the ''Jirón 28 de Julio''),{{sfn|Bromley Seminario|2019|p=140}} a new road that would connect the Plaza Mayor with a [[Plaza San Martín, Lima|projected public square]] located five blocks to the south (intended to house a new [[Palacio Municipal de Lima|City Hall]] and [[Legislative Palace (Peru)|Congress Building]]) was proposed by the local government, eventually acquiring the name of '''Avenida 28 de Julio'''.<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=Nueva Avenida 28 de Julio |magazine=Prisma |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XLIiAQAAIAAJ |pages=26-27 |issue=17 |year=1906 |publication-place=Lima}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=La Lima que nunca fue |url=http://blog.pucp.edu.pe/blog/juanluisorrego/2010/01/20/la-lima-que-nunca-fue/ |last=Orrego Penagos |first=Juan Luis |date=2010-01-20 |website=[[Blog PUCP]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite thesis |title=Pasado, presente y futuro se tocan físicamente en la ciudad de Lima |last=Ramos Cerna |first=Horacio |publisher=[[Pontifical Catholic University of Peru]] |url=https://www.infoartes.pe/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/TesisTexto-30III2015.pdf |language=es |page=28}}</ref> After the abandonment of the project, it kept its pedestrian nature and was ultimately renamed after Olaya.<ref>{{Cite book |title=La muralla y los callejones: intervención urbana y proyecto político en Lima durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX |last=Ramón Joffré |first=Gabriel |publisher=SIDEA |year=1999 |pages=198-199 |language=es |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0sPZAAAAMAAJ}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Evolución urbana de la Ciudad de Lima |last1=Bromley |first1=Juan |last2=Barbagelata |first2=José |publisher=Concejo Provincial de Lima |year=1945 |pages=100 |language=es |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XmN9AAAAMAAJ |author-link=Juan Bromley Seminario}}</ref>
==See also== {{Commons category|Pasaje Olaya, Lima}} *[[Historic Centre of Lima]] *[[Pasaje Santa Rosa]]
==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 |author-link=Juan Bromley |archive-date=2021-08-11 |access-date=2023-12-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210811164311/https://www.munlima.gob.pe/images/las-viejas-calles-de-lima.pdf |url-status=dead }}
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