Ruta El Legado de 'El Getsemanicense'
Ruta El Legado de 'El Getsemanicense'
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What better street than Carretero to be at the heart of Getsemaní! Not only because it leads to Plaza de la Trinidad, but also due to the neighbors and characters who lived there before and still do: Doña Olga Hurtado, the Caballero family, the Vitola family of old. There remains a taste of the old neighborhood and the good neighborliness experienced daily.
At the very corner with Trinidad, where Demente now stands, sewing machines were once repaired. Later, the remembered Mrs. Marcia and her brothers lived there: one who didn’t speak but sat at the entrance pinching passing kids, and another who arrived with a bag of bread in the evening. And so, house by house, stories and more stories: the yellow Suzuki parked in front of the Escandón brothers' house, which was moved so rarely it seemed part of the street. It had fruit trees that all the kids would pick from.
CALLE DEL CARRETERO
What better street than Carretero to be at the heart of Getsemaní! Not only because it leads to Plaza de la Trinidad, but also due to the neighbors and characters who lived there before and still do: Doña Olga Hurtado, the Caballero family, the Vitola family of old. There remains a taste of the old neighborhood and the good neighborliness experienced daily.
LIGHTS, CAMERA… GETSEMANÍ
Seeing film and audiovisual productions in Getsemaní has become a recurrent image. The neighborhood’s relationship with cinema has been very strong, as the city’s great theaters were once located here, and several generations grew up watching movies every night. Now, the relationship has changed: the neighborhood has become a protagonist, not just a spectator. While there is no longer a single cinema in the area, cameras, actors, and producers are frequently seen on its streets.
MIGUEL CABALLERO: IN THE FIRST PERSON
Miguel is and has been a leader; co-founder and manager of Gimaní Cultural and other initiatives; an economist and businessman; mediator and social organizer; a father and grandfather; a scholar of many topics in general and the neighborhood in particular; also the most systematic photographer of Getsemaní and its traditions.
LAS VITOLA: MARQUESES OF CARRIAGE DRIVER STREET
Their throne is the ledge of the house at the corner with Calle del Espíritu Santo, the same place where her husband and father, the unforgettable Mario Vitola, used to sit every afternoon telling fishing and ghost.
THE VENDORS
Did you want to have imported products at home like Agua de Farina or Pino Verde perfumes? Vaporub, Menticol del Rojo? How about Ballantine’s or White Horse whisky and Paxton, Lucky, or Kent cigarettes? In Getsemaní, you probably had a neighbor who sold them to you at a good price and on credit. And if you needed it, she would also sell you fabrics for your dress and even a wig.
HOTEL AND TOURISM TRADE SCHOOL, A BET FOR A MORE COMPETITIVE CARTAGENA
Few tourism training initiatives in this iconic and cultural territory have been considered beyond its seas. And although Cartagena's beautiful beaches and emblematic tourist sites attract visitors, its hotel offerings, the attention provided, and the good local cuisine invite them to stay and return.
LA ESTRELLA ROJA DANCE HALL
Popular in Cartagena between the 1930s and 1950s, this was a place where boleros, tropical music, and porros (a Colombian musical genre) were heard. In 1951, after presumably dancing more than once in this hall, Gabriel García Márquez addressed the theme of dance couples in a column in El Heraldo and criticized the sexist norms of the time.
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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