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To begin with, let's agree on a starting point: we all know where Media Luna Street ends: at the exit from Getsemaní towards Papayal, where the Revellín is located. Most of us can be quite certain about where it begins or began. However, there might be some debate among historians and urban planners about the latter.
It is now accepted that the street begins at the point where the Morales building (Quiebracanto) makes an angle, or as some say, from the boundary between that building and the Monterrey hotel. Where the discussion might arise is that the original urban layout had Calle Larga and the original "Media Luna" as the main axes of the neighborhood, converging at the corner where the church of the Third Order stands. The Arsenal was not considered a main street because it was an open area leading to the rear of the properties on Calle Larga.
MEDIA LUNA STREET – PART 1
To begin with, let's agree on a starting point: we all know where Media Luna Street ends: at the exit from Getsemaní towards Papayal, where the Revellín is located. Most of us can be quite certain about where it begins or began. However, there might be some debate among historians and urban planners about the latter.
MEDIA LUNA STREET – PART 2
Media Luna Street has stories in every meter of its length. It was the only land entry point for items coming from the interior. It was also the strategically important access point, which is why it was fortified with a revellín, a type of bridge and fortification for defense.
MEDIA LUNA STREET – PART 3
And after three installments, we are leaving Media Luna Street, like travelers in the Colonial era who, when heading out of the city by land, would approach the church of San Roque and see the revellín, the defensive gateway crucial for Cartagena’s military security.
THE RED BARONESS AND THE OLD FRANCISCAN CLOISTER
Ana María Vélez de Trujillo was ahead of her time, with a social justice vision she pursued with great management skills and resources. To achieve this, she turned the San Francisco convent into her operational center.
MOTHER BERNARDA, IN THE HEART OF GETSEMANÍ
In August, we will mark the 125th anniversary of Mother María Bernarda Butler's arrival in Cartagena. On August 2, 1895, she entered through the Puerta del Reloj accompanied by fourteen sisters of her congregation. Getsemaní would be her neighborhood for the rest of her life, leaving a legacy that still endures.
REBUILDING A COLOSSUS
How does one rebuild a neoclassical building from the early 20th century in the Caribbean, designed magnificently by a French architect but not completed according to plan? One that incorporates both old and new construction techniques, now outdated by contemporary advances? Reviving the old Cartagena Club headquarters, facing the Centenario park, is a significant architectural, technological, construction, aesthetic, and heritage challenge.
ROSARIO ROMÁN: MATRIARCH OF MEDIA LUNA
She sits in a rocking chair in the living room of her house, facing the hallway, just as her parents used to wait for her when she went out dancing at the bando in Plaza de la Aduana. She wears white pants and a floral shirt, with red lipstick and smoothing her hair so the breeze doesn’t mess it up. Her white hair is the greatest evidence of her enjoying life, she says.
DISCREET TWINS: PUERTA DEL SOL AND MORALES HERMANOS BUILDINGS
Two small buildings in Getsemaní shared the same umbilical cord since the Colonial era. A century ago they were separated; then reunited like conjoined twins sharing organs; separated again in recent decades. Now they will be together once more, as was their original purpose. Like Aureliano and José Arcadio in One Hundred Years of Solitude, they even ended up with their names mixed up.
CALLE DE LA MEDIA LUNA
It is one of the most well-known streets in Getsemaní, and Gabriel García Márquez mentions it in several of his novels. In Of Love and Other Demons,the characters, the Marquis of Casalduero, Neptune (his coachman), and Licentiate Abrenuncio de Sa Pereira Cao, walk along this street. Similarly, inThe General in His Labyrinth,it is one of the settings where Simón Bolívar walks, encountering a disturbed crowd due to a rabid dog.
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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