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In the literary construction of Lima through the centuries, two perspectives are delineated, the mythicising one and the critical one. The first, generated from the colonial texts, had a period of special relevance from the end of the 19th century in the works that the recreated viceregal Lima from the Tradiciones Peruanas by Ricardo Palma. In 2019, Alonso Cueto, a prominent narrator of the city, produced the great novel about the capital at the end of the colonial period, La Perricholi. Reina de Lima. This article deals with the study of the novel in its link with tradition, from the axes of literature and city, literature and history.