Lima Nocturna

A journey through Lima in the late 1960s, traveling amidst neon lights and advertising billboards, takes us to the opening of the Perricholi Restaurant in the Santa Beatriz district. Housed in a neo-colonial Republican mansion built in the 1930s, the establishment, adorned with tiles, lanterns, and gilded mirrors, paid homage to Micaela Villegas, "La Perricholi," the celebrated actress of Viceroy Amat's court. Among those attending the opening were radio announcer Oswaldo Vásquez Buitrago (d. 2010) and Nicanor González Urrutia (d. 2011).