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Miraflores, Lima — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Miraflores is a residential and upscale shopping district of Lima, Peru, lying south of the city's historic downtown.
About Miraflores
Where to stay in Miraflores
The right area depends on your trip — here's what each neighbourhood is best for.
Many visitors to Lima end up here. The district reads as residential and upscale shopping at once, so a bed among the office buildings and the flat-roofed, multi-coloured housing puts both sides of it within reach. Pick by landmark.
The Museo de Sitio Pucllana end keeps the excavated ground at the door, the blocks near Parque Reducto No. 2 stay quieter, and the shopping streets bring Museo Amano, Casa Museo Ricardo Palma and the Iglesia Alemana de San José within a short walk.
About Miraflores
What are the main landmarks in Miraflores?
Museo de Sitio Pucllana holds the oldest ground in Miraflores. Casa Museo Ricardo Palma keeps a writer's house, the Andrés Avelino Cáceres Museum carries the name of a public figure, and Museo Amano completes a group of three small museums standing within a short walk of one another. Casa Suárez is listed too.
Two churches, the Iglesia Alemana de San José and the Iglesia San Vicente de Paúl, are named among its buildings, and Parque Reducto No. 2 breaks the run of blocks with a green space.
What is the history of Miraflores?
Miraflores dates its founding to 1857. Older ground lies underneath, the site that gives Museo de Sitio Pucllana its name, and the building that followed turned the district into the residential and shopping quarter it remains within Lima. Casa Museo Ricardo Palma keeps a writer's house from that century.
Names record the rest. The Iglesia Alemana de San José carries a German dedication, Casa Suárez survives among later work, and the Andrés Avelino Cáceres Museum holds a public name.
Where is Miraflores?
Miraflores covers roughly ten square kilometres of Lima, where office buildings stand among flat-roofed, multi-coloured housing.
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Updated September 2026