Malecón de Miraflores

This guide to the Malecón de Miraflores boardwalk in Lima centers on Parque del Amor's bronze kissing sculpture, twelve meters long, built by Victor Delfín from what he watched through his own window: couples on the beaches below fleeing whenever officials passed. It traces the mayor's promise that led to the 1993 Valentine's Day opening, the backlash that called the piece vulgar, and a historian's defense of it as Peru's first mestizo sculpture. Look for the ceramic benches nearby, tiled with lines from poets like César Moro.