The Saladillo.
The saladillo
It is a traditional neighborhood in the city of Maracaibo, Zulia state, Venezuela. The name of the saladillo originates from the location, of a pair of salt flats called salina ancha and salina angosta, ran from the front of the current seawall (port of Maracaibo) to puente España (las playitas) in the city of Maracaibo.
The first historical mention of saladillo dates back to 1774 when it was only a farmhouse around a hermitage during the 19th and 20th centuries. It developed a local style of housing adapted to the climatic conditions of the city which gave it a self-tone character and its own identity.
In the 1970s, under the government of President Calderas and then-Governor Hilario Cardozo, they developed an urban plan that destroyed much of this neighborhood to create a motorized transport route in the city center.
Currently there are few remains of the original neighborhood but several historic buildings are preserved, especially around Carabobo Street, or Calle de la Tradición, which has been declared an area of historical value of the nation and artistic and cultural heritage of the city of Maracaibo.
Baralt Theatre, House of the Capitulation and Carabobo Street.
