Lima’s historic Olive Grove Park

There are many many things to love about Lima, Peru; among them, the daily caress of the metropolis’s mild climate, the city’s Viceroyal and Baroque architecture, its mid 20th Century architecture, the fascinating Barranco neighborhood … But, for me, in Lima there is nothing as quietly exhilarating nor as daily calming as its courtly Parque El Olivar, its Olive Grove Park, in the flourishing San Isidro district of the city. With foresight, Parque El Olivar was declared a Peruvian National Monument in 1959.