Ruta El Legado de 'El Getsemanicense'
Ruta El Legado de 'El Getsemanicense'
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CALLE LARGA – PART 1
A whole book could be written about Calle Larga. And how could it not be, considering that, along with La Media Luna, it was the basis for the street layout of Getsemaní and has over four centuries of history? Additionally, it lives up to its name: it measures 481.5 meters and yes, it is the longest street in the neighborhood.
CALLE LARGA – PART 2
Calle Larga would undergo several radical changes in the 19th and 20th centuries. The first occurred when the colonial wall and its three bastions were demolished. This meant reactivating port life, along with its related trades. One such trade involved removing boats from the water, scraping off barnacles, and then repairing the damage. With all these trades, specialized artisans and other workers found a place to live in the neighborhood.
CALLE LARGA – PART 3
Calle Larga and La Media Luna were the first streets in the neighborhood and around which the others were laid out. They are so old that they already appear on a map from 1597. Describing them is also telling a bit of our history. In this third part, we will cover the section from the Church of the Third Order to San Juan Street.
PADILLA HOUSE AND THEATER
So much history and so many movies on that property! How did it come into Padilla's hands? With whom and how long did he live there? The property is one of the oldest with written memory in the neighborhood. Not surprisingly, it was a neighbor of the San Francisco convent, the first construction in Getsemaní. In the “Relación del sitio asiento de Getsemaní” from 1620, it is already listed, according to the restoration architect Rodolfo Ulloa Vergara.
VIEW FROM A HUGE BALCONY ON CALLE LARGA
For me, it all started after Mom said to me, “Honey, Father Salazar has vacated our house in Cartagena. We’re going to pack up and move, and we’ll celebrate Christmas with Dad and the family in the hot land.” “And what about my school?” I asked. “There’s school there too.” No more doubts: we began packing.
LUISA ÁLVAREZ OR THE COLOR OF RETURN
She spent many years in the colorful happiness of Curacao, creating and designing hotels, resorts, restaurants, houses, and specialty stores through her work as an architect and her passion for painting. But one day, she was overtaken by the desire to return to her Calle Larga in Getsemaní, where she grew up happily and put down roots.
JOSÉ PRUDENCIO PADILLA: AN ADMIRAL ON CALLE LARGA
On June 24th, we mark the 200th anniversary of the Night of San Juan, the event that sealed the Independence of New Granada from Spain. A night that began in our Arsenal, led by a son that the neighborhood adopted as its own.
HOUSE 1876
Tracing the history of this property—neighboring the old Rialto Theater on Calle Larga—is like summarizing the extensive history of the entire area. In its new life, it will integrate several of those facets; changing rooms will be like stepping through different eras in just a few steps.
THE RIALTO THEATER: A DREAM OF MANY YEARS
It was the crowning achievement of Belisario Díaz, who wanted to give Cartagena a theater of class after decades of growing enthusiasm for cinema but without a great venue of its own. It took him years to bring it to fruition, but it only took a few weeks for the dream to turn to ashes.
LILIANA URREGO OR THE THEORY OF THE SQUARE METER
On Calle Larga, for the past twenty years, lives a Cartagena resident who is both an environmental activist; an indefatigable project organizer; a persistent questioner of mayors and officials; a quality dentist, and a neighbor deeply committed to the present and future of Getsemaní, which she sees as a potential model for the entire city.
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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