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Peru's Capital Gets New Dress
National Geographic Society takes readers through Lima as modernization sweeps the old city. Roads and sewers improve, cobbles yield to concrete, and car routes expand toward the mountains, while historic streets keep local names and a romantic tie to the past.
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National Geographic Society
Washington D. C
WNU
New Lima
City of the
Pizarros
Pisarro
Lima
Plaza San Martin
National Palace
Calle la Merced
Bagtjano Veinte Cinco
Jehu
Jesus Nazareno
Giron Carabaya
Boza
Mercaderas
Old City
San Francisco
F.P. Farrar
West Coast
Plaza de Armas
Ecrier
Audiencia
Alonso Godinez
Guadalajara
Spain
Marta Villosiada
New World
Torre-Taglie
Ministry of Foreign Relations
Kings