Roosevelt Park in Lima

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• Lima has never been a city that gave importance to open urban spaces or public parks. Its natives concern dealt with farming land free of homes, not for ecology or landscape sake, but for survival on a land with scarce fertile areas. With the viceroyalty the valley of Lima, the biggest fertile valley on southamerican pacific coast was farmed intensively and goods as vines, figs, apples, and many flowers brought from Europe here for the first time. Viceroyal Lima, the city of the kings, was enwalled and surrounded by green pastures, orchards and vines. The ignorance of Republican times destroyed the valley and it is now covered with concrete and around the valley only sand is to be seen, but in some areas there are still small green patches, most of them in San Isidro area, this park being particularly a fine example of landscape design, and one of the few parks where one can walk and sit to read a book without beggars and completely safe. It is steps away from Miguel Dasso street, where a lot of nice places to eat , shops and bookstores show how different from regular Perú this district is, and how most of Lima was before the natives migration during the 60`s, a nice and peculiar but completely different culture.
• The description was provided by Sergio Alejandro Lira