Miraflores

This guide to Miraflores in Lima starts with the district's origin as a reduction, a forced settlement where Mercedarian friars gathered indigenous families to work coastal estates whose names survive only as street signs today. It traces how a railway built through those same fields by 1858 let wealthy Limeños turn the area into a cliffside retreat, and how a tramway kept the district moving for decades after. Read the old estate names still marked on the avenues as you walk them.