"Ilustración y reformas en la Lima de Gil de Taboada y Lemos (1790-1796)"

Throughout the government of the viceroy Gil de Taboada y Lemos (1790-1796), Peru started to implement a number of structural changes which the creole elite from Lima attributed to the arriving of Illustrated ideas to America. These progressist insights were easily introduced by the government of Taboada y Lemos and visible not only in the cultural policies but also in the urban planning. This way, the article highlights how the streetlight and the paving were implemented in the capital during this viceroy’s government. Also, some important buildings were finished by then, as the cathedral of the city, of which some information about the repair of its towers is offered hereunder. Besides, this document refers to the census from the last years of the 18th century, the most important one undertaken in Peru under the Spanish administration, and it also mentions the Residence Trial from which Gil de Taboada was difficulty exempted.