Ruta El Legado de 'El Getsemanicense'
Ruta El Legado de 'El Getsemanicense'
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What Makes Avenida El Pedregal Unique? Avenida El Pedregal stands out from the rest of Getsemaní due to its notable width compared to the narrow streets of the neighborhood. It features a lot of undeveloped land and few tall or old two-story houses. This distinction has deep historical roots in the neighborhood. In the following three segments, we will explore the details of this singular street.
During the Colonial era, El Pedregal was like the back of Getsemaní. La Media Luna, with its outlet to the mainland, and Calle Larga, with its access to the port, were the areas with the most economic and social prosperity. Manga would not be inhabited until three centuries later. Therefore, there was no bridge like the Román. There was a powerful military reason to keep that area uninhabited: the walls were the target of enemy projectiles. For this reason, it was decided not to build anything within five hundred paces of them. The aim was to save lives and avoid fires that could spread through the neighborhood.
Avenida El Pedregal – Part 1
What Makes Avenida El Pedregal Unique? Avenida El Pedregal stands out from the rest of Getsemaní due to its notable width compared to the narrow streets of the neighborhood. It features a lot of undeveloped land and few tall or old two-story houses. This distinction has deep historical roots in the neighborhood. In the following three segments, we will explore the details of this singular street.
Avenida El Pedregal – Part 2
This part of Getsemaní is quite spacious compared to most streets, which are narrow. This can be explained by two main reasons. First, it was a reserved area behind the wall for planting gardens, which were useful in case of a siege, but no buildings were allowed to avoid fires and casualties during a pirate or corsair attack.
Avenida El Pedregal – Part 3
“The Corner of the Breeze” was the nickname for the intersection of Media Luna and El Pedregal. Many remember that the original monument to the Old Boots was installed there. It was also noted that there was a gas station across the street, on the bay side.
DEFENSIVE SYSTEM OF GETSEMANÍ
Have you noticed that the walls of Getsemaní are slightly lower than those of the Centro and that there are small doors on El Pedregal? Why were there never defenses built on the side of La Matuna? How many fortifications were there and how many remain?
FLORENCIO FERRER
The street is life. Who hasn’t seen Florencio Ferrer walking through the streets of Getsemaní? It’s almost inevitable that a neighbor will stop him to greet him or share something about the neighborhood. It seems easy now, but it wasn’t always this way. He has fought battles that have cost him dearly.
JESÚS ACEVEDO: AN OLD-TIME CRAFT
When asked how many generations of his family have been rooted in Getsemaní, Jesús, the foundry worker on Avenida El Pedregal, pauses and looks at the dirt floor with some cigarette butts. He counts the generations in the neighborhood, marking each number with his lips: one, two, three, four, five, six, and… seven!
A NEIGHBOR OF FORTITUDE
The San José Bastion might seem a bit overlooked, even by lifelong residents, but it was once a formidable military structure. To someone walking quickly, it might appear as just a widening of the wall. From the Román Bridge, it is obscured by the lush mangroves growing on one side. It is best seen from the Heredia Bridge.
BORIS CAMPILLO: “BASKETBALL HAS GIVEN ME EVERYTHING”
“This is very nice,” says Boris Campillo as he receives the affection of neighbors who still recognize, greet, and embrace him on the street years later. New York hasn’t taken away his Caribbean flair: gradient-colored shirt, wide pants, and Ray-Ban sunglasses. He is now on vacation, trading the northern snow for the warmth of his people and neighborhood.
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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