{{Short description|Neighbourhood in Peru}} {{More footnotes needed|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox settlement |name = Santa Beatriz |image_skyline = Sede Embajada Argentina en Perú.jpg |image_caption = [[Embassy of Argentina, Lima|Former embassy of Argentina]] |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = [[Peru]] |subdivision_type1 = [[Regions of Peru|Department]] |subdivision_name1 = [[Lima Department|Lima]] |subdivision_type2 = [[Provinces of Peru|Province]] |subdivision_name2 = [[Lima Province|Lima]] |subdivision_type3 = [[List of districts of Lima|District]] |subdivision_name3 = [[Lima District|Lima]] |population_as_of = 2017 |population_total = 15,122<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://agua.inei.gob.pe/ |title=Sistema de Consulta de Abastecimiento de Agua por Red Pública a Nivel de Manzana |website=[[Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática]] |access-date=2023-12-26 |archive-date=2023-05-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230525140826/https://agua.inei.gob.pe/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> }} '''Santa Beatriz''' is a [[neighbourhood]] in [[Lima District]]. It is the southernmost area of the district. It limits to the north, with the [[historic centre of Lima]]; to the east, with [[La Victoria District, Lima|La Victoria]]; to the south, with [[Lince District|Lince]]; and to the west, with [[Jesús María District, Lima|Jesús María]].
During the early 20th century, it housed important figures of [[Peruvian literature]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Santa Beatriz: Residencia en la tierra |url=https://elcomercio.pe/eldominical/residencia-tierra-noticia-617066-noticia/ |last=Subirana Abanto |first=Katherine |date=2019-03-17 |work=[[El Comercio (Peru)|El Comercio]]}}</ref>
==History== Located in the Huatica valley, when the [[Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire|Spanish conquest]] took place, [[Francisco Pizarro]] awarded this estate to {{ill|Diego de Agüero|es}}, who named it the Hacienda Santa Beatriz.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Historia de la muy noble y antigua urbanización Santa Beatriz |url=https://ccelima.org/evento/historia-de-la-muy-noble-y-antigua-urbanizacion-santa-beatriz/ |date=2022-10-11 |work=CCELima}}</ref> Upon the death of his son, Diego de Agüero y Garay, the agricultural property was acquired by the novitiate of the [[Society of Jesus]], in 1629. After the expulsion of the Jesuits, in 1771 the government sold the property to Manuel de la Torre y Quiroz, who, together with his wife Águeda Josefa de Tagle, founded an estate on the hacienda. According to the law of separation of estates, the estate passed to Josefa de Tagle, IV Marchioness of Torre Tagle, from whom the State expropriated the estate in 1870 for the construction of an agronomy school.
Eminently residential in nature, it was the first urbanization created outside the boundaries of the old [[historic centre of Lima]]. It was founded during the government of President [[Augusto B. Leguía]]. Located in the district was the [[Hipódromo de Santa Beatriz]] (today the [[El Campo de Marte|Campo de Marte]]), which was the oldest in Peru and operated until the mid-1930s when it was replaced by the [[Hipódromo de San Felipe]]. At this racecourse, members of the [[British Peruvians|British colony]] also met to practice [[golf]] prior to the founding of the [[Lima Golf Club]] and the first [[landing strip]] in Peru also functioned, prior to the construction of the [[Limatambo International Airport]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Limatambo: el primer aeropuerto comercial del Perú |url=https://elcomercio.pe/lima/sucesos/limatambo-primer-aeropuerto-comercial-peru-fotos-noticia-479479-noticia/ |last=Fernández |first=María |date=2017-12-06 |work=[[El Comercio (Peru)|El Comercio]]}}</ref>
The urbanization section was planned according to North American characteristics (very consistent with Leguía's time), with main avenues ([[Arenales Avenue|Arenales]], [[Avenida Arequipa|Arequipa]] and [[Petit Thouars Avenue|Petit Thouars]]), two-storey [[mansion]]s, [[Garage (residential)|garages]] for cars and large [[garden]]s similar to mansions. Its urbanization in the early 1930s broke all the residential patterns of Lima, where wealthy families began to leave the Centre of Lima to move beyond the limits of [[Paseo Colón]] and also for direct access to the [[Miraflores District, Lima|Miraflores spas]].
The architecture of the houses surrounding Arequipa and Arenales avenues had a European style and in the area of Petit Thouars avenue adjacent to the Lince neighbourhoods (the former Lobatón hacienda) they had an [[Art Deco]] style.
Starting on January 20, 2024, the Casa Boza, one of the neighbourhood's oldest houses that was built in 1925, was demolished to make way for a university building after its inclusion in the national heritage registry was controversially rejected by the [[Ministry of Culture (Peru)|Ministry of Culture]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Casa Boza: crónica de la muerte de una de las primeras casas modernas de Lima |url=https://elcomercio.pe/lima/patrimonio/casa-boza-una-de-las-primeras-casas-modernas-de-lima-sera-demolida-por-una-universidad-patrimonio-patrimonio-cultural-centro-historico-noticia/ |last=Cayetano Chávez |first=José |date=2024-02-15 |work=[[El Comercio (Peru)|El Comercio]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Casa Boza y su demolición: entretelones del histórico inmueble que se convertirá en un campus universitario |url=https://www.infobae.com/peru/2024/01/23/casa-boza-es-demolida-entretelones-del-historico-inmueble-en-lince-que-se-convertira-en-una-sede-universitaria/ |last=Angulo |first=Jazmine |date=2024-01-23 |work=[[Infobae]]}}</ref>
==Landmarks== The Santa Beatriz urbanization concentrates three of the main arteries of the city of Lima: [[Avenida Arequipa|Arequipa]], Petit Thouars, and Arenales avenues, and also houses various public buildings and [[cultural centre]]s such as: *The [[National Stadium of Peru]] *[[Lima Art Museum]] *The headquarters of the [[Founders of Independence Society]] *[[Rospigliosi Castle]], built in 1929 by {{ill|Carlos Rospigliosi Vigil|es}}. Since 1949, it has been the headquarters of the [[Peruvian Air Force|Air Warfare Academy]], as property of the Peruvian State. *The [[Iglesia de Santa Teresita (Lima)|Church of Saint Thérèse]] *The [[Istituto Italiano di Cultura]], the ''[[Colegio Italiano Antonio Raimondi|Colegio Raimondi]]'' until 1997 *The [[Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation|Spanish Cultural Centre]] *The [[Radio Nacional del Perú]] *Luigi Pirandello Theatre *The [[Park of the Exhibition]] *Hernán Velarde Park *The [[Parque de la Reserva|Park of the Reserve]], which houses the Magic Water Tour *The Lawn Tennis Club *A number of EsSalud buildings
It also houses diplomatic and military institutions such as the [[Embassy of Argentina, Lima|Embassy of Argentina]] (as well as its consulate), the Embassy of [[Venezuela]], the former embassy of the [[Republic of China]], the [[Embassy of the United States, Lima|residence]] of the [[List of ambassadors of the United States to Peru|ambassador of the United States]], the Headquarters of the [[Joint Command of the Armed Forces of Peru]] and the [[Military Police Court]].
It also houses the headquarters of the longest-running television stations in the country, [[América Televisión]], [[Panamericana Televisión]] and [[TV Perú]].
Santa Beatriz is home to educational institutions such as Norbert Wiener University, [[Inca Garcilaso de la Vega University]] and the [[Technological University of Peru]], the National School of Statistics and Informatics (ENEI), the private schools of [[Colegio San Andrés|San Andrés (formerly the Anglo–Peruvian School)]], Dante Alighieri (formerly Antonio Raimondi), Trilce, Saco Oliveros, and Palmer.
==Gallery== <gallery> Palaciodelaexposicion.jpg|Palace of the Exposition Parque reserva lima.jpg|Park of the Reserve MINISTRA DE DEFENSA SOBREVOLÓ LA CAPITAL PARA SUPERVISAR ACATAMIENTO DE INMOVILIZACIÓN SOCIAL (50898754403).jpg|[[National Stadium of Peru]] Fuentechinafrente.jpg|The [[Fuente China|Chinese Fountain]] 2017 Lima - Circuito mágico del Parque de las Aguas.jpg|Parque de las Aguas Santa Teresita Lima 0001.jpg|Santa Teresita Church </gallery>
==See also== *[[Lima District]]
==References== {{reflist}}
[[Category:Neighbourhoods in Lima]] [[Category:Lima District]]