Plaza Libertad - San Salvador, El Salvador
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N 13° 41.849 W 089° 11.363
16P E 263209 N 1515341
This Plaza is highlighted by a Monument celebrating the 100th Anniversary (1911) of the first calls (in 1811) for El Salvador's independence from Spain. Indepence was realized 19 years later in 1821.
Waymark Code: WMGM5X
Location: El Salvador
Date Posted: 03/18/2013
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The English translation of Wikipedia's Spanish language entry for this Plaza/Park (
visit link) informs us:
"Freedom Square is located in the historic center of the city of San Salvador, El Salvador. It was from this place that started the expansion of the city in the mid-sixteenth century.
History
In the year 1545 the settlers who left the town of San Salvador, in the valley of Bermuda, established a new settlement in a place called "The Village" in the Valley of the Hammocks, near the river Acelhuate .
In subsequent years, the city would grow around an empty space called "Plaza Mayor de Armas", following the guidelines of the Spanish grid. On the south side of the buildings were built institutions such as the Cabildo, post office and public prisons, and to the east, the parish church dedicated to the Holy Saviour of the World (now Church El Rosario). The area became the center of political, economic and religious Salvadoran province in the following centuries.
In the late 1860s began construction of the National Palace aside Bolivar Park (now Plaza Gerardo Barrios), in what was the beginning of a different core related Spanish colonial era and the Plaza Mayor, at that time (approximately the second half of the nineteenth century), was known as Plaza Dueñas.
Due to the commemoration of the centenary of the First Cry of Independence in 1911, was erected the Monument to the Heroes in whose pinnacle highlights an "angel of freedom" holding laurel wreaths on both hands. Years later, amid the emerging development of trade, its contours were constructed in the portals of the West (1915-1916) and La Dalia (1917)."