Larcomar

This guide to Larcomar in Lima opens in 1937, when a young aviator named Alfredo Salazar was rehearsing a flight over Miraflores as his engine began to fail. It traces how the field where he came down became a park named in his memory, marked by a condor carved by a Hungarian sculptor facing the sea, and later the cliffside terraces you're standing on. Writers like Vargas Llosa and Ribeyro both set scenes of Sunday courtship in that old park, long before developers carved shops into the cliff face in 1998.