Museum of the Discalced

This guide to the Museum of the Discalced in Lima traces the nearly kilometer-long promenade Viceroy Juan de Mendoza y Luna laid out in 1611, modeled on a fashionable walkway in Seville, and the two centuries of courtship, gossip and public spectacle it hosted. It follows the actress Micaela Villegas, known as La Perricholi, and the scandal tied to her home along the route, plus the Italian marble and English ironwork President Ramon Castilla brought in during the 1850s. Walk the line of marble benches and statues that still marks the old promenade.