The Saladillo
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If any damage did the so-called Fourth Republic of Venezuela to Zulia, it was the project of La Remodelación, promoted by then President Rafael Caldera which consisted of an ambitious infrastructure of great modernity and beauty that contemplated more than three thousand “housing solutions” that never arose, it would also house science and its scientists in all its glory, through its executing entity called El Centro Libertador. Nothing further from reality.
No urban area of Zulia defines more precisely of its people than El Saladillo, is the typical neighborhood par excellence.
The name of El Saladillo originated by its location next to a saline near the city of Maracaibo. It should be remembered, first of all, that El Saladillo was born as a hamlet at the end of the 17th century, when the pious captain Juan de Andrade decided to manufacture a hermitage to consecrate it to the cult of San Juan de Dios, and that the very small community began to expand in the middle of the eighteenth century, after a village woman made the discovery of a miraculous tablita on the shores of the lake, so that the name of Maracaibo was forever linked to that of the Chiquinquirá.
Already in 1812, dramatic year for the nascent Republic, but of grace and glory for the Maracaiberos, the feast of La Chinita began to be celebrated. The long tradition is closed when in 1942, at the end of an exciting collective effort, the grandiose act of coronation was carried out and La Chinita was given its status as a religious symbol of the people.
To the stability and growth of El Saladillo as a neighborhood, another decisive event occurred, the construction of the Chiquinquirá Hospital, known by the marabino village as “El Hospitalito”. Poor people no longer dying because of the absence of medical services, nor giving birth to women women under a cují forest. The inhabitants of the neighborhood felt safer and no one thought of emigrating in the arid areas of the north, or crossing the lagoon in search of better living conditions.
Speaking about the popular neighborhood of El Saladillo, we remember not only its picturesque old houses, with high windows and doors, trays, gargoyles and their well-known red tile roofs, but also the famous names of the sectors and shops or wineries, letters of inspiration for some pipers, including: Fuego Vivo, Las Quince Letras, Puerto Arturo, La Caramelera, The Biombos, La Mala Ley, among others.
In its territorial space, El Saladillo could well be a citadel. Its urban distribution includes from Ayacucho Street (Av). 11), by the East and the Av. 15 Delights in the West. In the North-South sense, there are Calle Pacheco (92) and Calle La Marina (100), today called Av.. Liberator respectively. They covered fifty hectares, occupied by 15 thousand inhabitants in 1,900 properties, distributed in 59 blocks.
As for its architecture, it is characterized by the vivid colours of the old houses, which looked high gates and floor-to-ceiling windows, bahareques and their roofs of red tiles, with their respective gargoyles. There is a neat list of typical sites and streets with very popular names. Among them we can name El Callejón de la Gaveta, Puerto Arturo, La Caramelera, La Voc, Bad Law, Live Fire, Perdition, Divides and Pascualito, among others. As for the inventory of businesses, supplies and warehouses, for the last decade of the nineteenth century in El Saladillo, there were 7 warehouses, 8 warehouses, 62 pulperías, 3 shops, 6 stores, 4 bakeries, pottery, sawmills, 16 carpentry, 5 shoe shops, 4 tailors, 10 blacksmiths, noodle factories and let's stop counting, in conclusion a whole mini city of the era
Sadly on March 20, 1970, the black history of this flowery neighborhood begins, as the then president of the Republic Rafael Caldera began the demolition of El Saladillo, for an alleged urban intervention of 3,500 homes (never built), this only served to destroy the heart of the zulians, the beloved neighborhood El El Saladillo. Saladillo.
El Saladillo was reduced to three emblematic places: Las Torres del Saladillo, an infrastructure originally built as a sports villa, with little to contribute to people in terms of what became known as saladillera life, Carabobo Street, the only vestige, make-up, but that shows the closest to the original Saladillo and El Saladillo Pozón, corner that today calls the whole Zulia as the heart of authentic zulianity by tradition and that today is the consensual of young and adults, as it preserves the bustle, architecture and when entering the visitor is transported as in a capsule of time in the glorious time of the longed for Saladillo.
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ravena69
3 years ago
These images are fascinating. Yesterday I wasn't seeing some restored photographs.
lozanodurfay
3 years ago
In that place it shows like a lot of tranquility and clean air that cute
Teresa Seia
3 years ago
History, man-made history, works like a pendulum, back and forth, back and forth...informative and enjoyable read!
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