{{Short description|Quinta in Lima, Peru}} {{Infobox building | name = Quinta Leuro | image = Quinta Leuro.jpg | caption = | location = [[Miraflores District, Lima]] | architectural_style = [[Eclecticism in architecture|Eclectic]] | construction_start_date = | construction_stop_date = 1927 | address = | floor_count = | number_of_rooms = | owner = | architect = Lidio Mongilardi }} The '''Quinta Leuro''' is an [[Quinta (estate)|estate]] located in the [[Miraflores District, Lima|district of Miraflores]], [[Lima]], [[Peru]].
==History== [[File:Municipalidad de Miraflores - Barrio Leuro (7456991158).jpg|thumb|left|The Leuro neighbourhood in the 20th century.]] The villa, located on the 8 block of [[Avenida 28 de Julio (Lima)|Avenida 28 de Julio]], was planned at the beginning of the 20th century by the Italian architect Lidio Mongilardi on the land of the Leuro urbanization, former farms owned by the bureaucrat Juan José Leuro y Carfanger.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://blog.pucp.edu.pe/blog/juanluisorrego/2013/01/23/notas-sobre-la-historia-del-distrito-de-miraflores/ |title=Notas sobre la historia del distrito de Miraflores |date=2013-01-23 |website=[[Pontifical Catholic University of Peru|Blog PUCP]] |last=Orrego Penagos |first=Juan Luis }}{{Dead link|date=January 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref><ref name=quinta>{{Cite web |url=http://www.quintamiraflores.com/es/history |title=Historia |website=Quinta Miraflores |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190905191026/http://www.quintamiraflores.com/es/history |archive-date=2019-09-05}}</ref>
The architectural style of the villa is [[Eclecticism in architecture|eclectic]], in which [[Spanish Revival|neocolonial elements]] are combined with predominant Mediterranean structures on the Spanish, Italian and French coasts.<ref name=quinta/>
This urban space served as the setting for the story ''Tristes querellas de la vieja quinta'' by the Peruvian writer [[Julio Ramón Ribeyro]], published in his 1977 book ''Silvio en El Rosedal''.<ref>{{Cite news |title=90 años de Julio Ramón Ribeyro: los lugares que inspiraron sus cuentos |url=https://cosas.pe/cultura/82331/la-ruta-julio-ramon-ribeyro-escenarios-donde-ocurren-las-historias-del-cuentista/ |date=2017-08-31 |work=COSAS}}</ref>
In 1987 it was declared [[Cultural heritage of Peru|Cultural Patrimony of the Nation]] through resolution RM.Nº 302-87-ED.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Relación de Monumentos Históricos del Perú |publisher=National Institute of Culture |year=1999 |pages=75 |language=es |url=https://www.cultura.gob.pe/sites/default/files/pagbasica/tablaarchivos/07/relaciondemonumentoshistoricos.pdf |archive-date=2022-09-29 |access-date=2023-08-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929152427/https://www.cultura.gob.pe/sites/default/files/pagbasica/tablaarchivos/07/relaciondemonumentoshistoricos.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==See also== *[[Quinta Heeren]] *[[Quinta de Presa]]
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{{Landmarks in Lima}}
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[[Category:Quintas in Peru]] [[Category:Miraflores District, Lima]] [[Category:Buildings and structures in Lima]] [[Category:Cultural heritage of Peru]]