It was built in front of the 'false door' of the convent of San Agustín and would become the main centre of theatrical activity in the city.

It was after the independence of Peru when a small square was opened with the purpose of enhancing the façade of the Teatro Principal, in whose vicinity a growing audience gathered.

Shortly after, the supreme delegate, José Bernardo de Tagle y Portocarrero, ordered the arrangement of an elongated space that would serve as a public walk.

[1] It was initially called September 7 Square, in memory of the landing of the Liberating Expedition in Paracas and the abandonment of Lima by the royalist troops.

[3] It was in one of these rented apartments on the upper floors of the Hotel del Universo that the National Club was initially established on October 19, 1855.