Love Park

This guide to Love Park in Lima's Miraflores district follows sculptor Victor Delfín, who built an eight-meter red clay kiss after watching couples along the Costa Verde cliffs below, at the request of mayor Alberto Andrade. It traces the mosaic paving borrowed from Gaudí's Park Güell, the poetry lines set into the benches, and the backlash the sculpture drew when it opened on Valentine's Day 1993, including racially charged criticism of its mestizo faces. Stop by in early evening, when the boardwalk crowds thin out.