Ruta El Legado de 'El Getsemanicense'
Ruta El Legado de 'El Getsemanicense'
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The two streets bordering the Centenario Park between Media Luna and the old San Felipe hotel have many stories to tell. Today they are an avenue and, on the park side, an informal parking lot and a taxi stand. In their past, various elements blend together, giving us clues about how Getsemaní evolved.
At its colonial inception, three forces helped shape them: the slaughterhouse, the San Anastasio canal, and the Media Luna street. They had no formal name or it was not recorded because it was common in the Colony for streets adjacent to a main square to be named according to the side they were on. The slaughterhouse of the nascent city could not be within the founding city. Regulations for organizing a new city prohibited it. Slaughterhouses were considered dirty work, with smells and emissions deemed unhealthy for people. Thus, they were to be built outside the city walls. In Cartagena, roughly where the skating rink is today. When Getsemaní had its own wall, the matter was so established that it remained that way. In fact, it gave its name to the entire area, which was called the Plaza del Matadero.
AVENIDA EL CENTENARIO
The two streets bordering the Centenario Park between Media Luna and the old San Felipe hotel have many stories to tell. Today they are an avenue and, on the park side, an informal parking lot and a taxi stand. In their past, various elements blend together, giving us clues about how Getsemaní evolved.
THE CLUB CARTAGENA: FROM DREAM TO REALITY
Realizing architectural designs is often a path full of practical obstacles and decisions made on the fly. This was the case with the Club Cartagena headquarters in Getsemaní. Exactly a century ago, its directors faced the challenge of building a building they wanted to be emblematic for the city.
THE ART OF PLASTER AND CEMENT IN THE RESTORATION OF CLUB CARTAGENA
Nowadays, buildings are usually designed with straight lines and stripped of exterior decoration. But there was a long period when embellishing facades, ceilings, and interiors was an integral part of designing a property. Volutes, curves, and vegetal forms were not only permitted but well regarded. They were a sign of the modernity in which we were to embark to leave the colonial era behind.
QUIEBRACANTO: LET’S DANCE
A living museum of salsa! That’s Quiebracanto, the bar that arrived in 1993 at the Puerta del Sol building. On weekend nights or during major cultural events, the bar is packed with people, so much so that occasionally the collective dancing makes the floor vibrate.
AN OSCAR IN GETSEMANÍ
The filming of “Quemada”half a century ago was an event for the entire city. Its protagonist was considered the best actor in the world. The story is recounted in the new novel “El hombre que hablaba de Marlon Brando.”. Its author knows Getsemaní very well and placed it at the center of the story.
PARQUE DEL CENTENARIO
It is an essential meeting point for the people of Cartagena. It was built to commemorate the centenary of the city's independence. On June 8, 1948, in his column "Punto y aparte" in El Universal, the young Gabriel García Márquez described some everyday scenes of the place, such as the presence of an organ grinder and a monkey, whose presence gave the area a bit of a jungle feel.
Talking about Arsenal Street necessarily means talking about the port, the docks, the sandbank, the wall, the public market and many other things (...)
A whole book could be written about Larga Street. It has more than four centuries of history and together with Media Luna Street, they were the basis for the layout of the streets of Getsemaní (...)
San Juan Evangelista Street is one of the few that still retains its colonial name. When it was paved around 1967, many items such as weapons and pellets were found during excavation work (...)
A memory in a scent. This is how the older people in the neighborhood remember San Antonio Street: the carts of pellets that left the Imperial Bakery at four in the morning to supply so many places in the city (...)
The name of the street is clear: at the end, near the bay of Las Ánimas, was the waterhole of the Navy (...)
Its full name is Calle Nuestra Señora de las Palmas Benditas because, it is said, its first residents were very devoted to that devotion of the Virgin Mary (...)
It is said that during colonial times, fishermen left their wet flip-flops on the sidewalk to dry in the sun while they worked (...)
Pozo Street has almost as much history as the neighborhood. From its small square, the lancers marched towards the center in 1811 to tip the balance in favor of declaring total independence from Spain (...)
One of the streets with the highest number of residents per square meter, here you can experience neighborhood life like no other (...)
Together with the Angosto alley, they are among the blocks with the most neighborhood life in Getsemaní (...)
What a street like Carretero to be in the heart of Getsemaní! Not only because it leads to the Plaza de la Trinidad, but also because of the neighbors and people who lived there before and who still live there (...)
Little is known about the name. It comes from the Colony and traces point to the region of León, in present-day Spain (...)
The origin of this street dates back to 1603, when the Order of Saint John of God created a hospital called the Holy Spirit, on land adjacent to the current Hermitage of San Roque (...)
Talking about Media Luna Street is placing ourselves in a reference par excellence that the Getsemaní neighborhood has (...)
We must begin by correcting a misunderstanding: it is not Guerrero Street, but Guerrero Street (...)
The presence of the Obra Pía, built between 1640 and 1650, has gravitated around this street. It occupies a good part of the block and its front faces Media Luna Street (...)
This short street has a very long history. From being one of the least valued streets, it became a large neighbourhood centre and now, a commercial and transit hub between the Centre and the rest of Getsemaní (...)
It is one of the few that still maintains a name of Catholic origin, as did almost all the streets and landmarks in cities founded by Spaniards (...)
Both streets have had various names, almost all of them more common or 'formal', so to speak. But those that have survived are the popular ones, which are perhaps signs of a modest origin. (...)
Popularly, it was also called the street of the Goats, because there was always someone who said something or something happened to a neighbor and everyone came out to defend him (...)
There is no consensus on the origin of its name. Sierpe means “snake” in old Spanish and it is one of the few streets that has kept its original name since the Colonial period (...)
On Turtle Street, the houses were attached to the San Anastasio Canal. Its inhabitants placed mangrove stakes with which they kept confined the four species of turtles that the fishermen brought from other places through the Juan Angola Canal (...)
Many people remember that the monument to the Botas Viejas was originally erected there. Today it is the place where pelota de trapo, the traditional sport of the neighbourhood, is played.
The name Plaza de la Trinidad was given to it in 1643, the year in which the church was completed.
Source: (NotiCartagena)
Its design is based on a French-style park; with an almost quadrangular shape, the park is surrounded by a perimeter fence and eight entrances decorated with an arch.
Source: (El Universal Newspaper)
The arrival of the Hotel San Francisco, operated by Four Seasons, allows Getsemaní to open up to luxury tourism, elevating Cartagena's name as a world-class tourist destination.
Source: (Iriante, 2022)
This square was the place where the people gathered to celebrate popular festivals, in which floats were used and the most beautiful girls paraded.
Source: NotiCartagena
The two streets that border Centenario Park between Media Luna and the old San Felipe hotel have many stories to tell. Today they are an avenue and, on the park side, an informal parking lot and a taxi station.(...)
The Cartagena de Indias Convention Center was created as a project by the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism in 1978, as a mechanism to generate regional development hubs through the implementation of broad-based activities, such as congresses, events and conventions. It was designed by the firm Esguerra, Sáenz and Samper Ltda. and built by the Cartagena firm Civilco.
Source: Convention Center - Cartagena de Indias
It was the last flank of the neighborhood to be closed. It was so recently that many Getsemaní residents remember it as the baseball and soccer field of their childhood. (...)
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