Calle del Comercio
CALLE DEL COMERCIO
Santa Ana, El Salvador.
In the city
of Santa Ana the town hall was created or also known like house of the city
council in the place where the mayor's office was erected which was destroyed
by a fire provoked by a revolt in 1870, this building had like objective to
raise funds that are Would direct a part to the civil works of construction of
the city as to improve the aspect of the city and the other part was directed
to the king of Spain.
By the year
1930 Santa Ana still kept the fuel burners and to light them, a gentleman was
carrying a stick with a lit cigarette lighter and another stick with which the
cigarette lighters of the posts would close and then closed them, the next
morning in the morning A rod that had a bell or a plug on the end with which it
turned off the lit lighters, and this is how the center of the city came alive
at night.
The
arrangement of the Street as the placement of the ditches at each end of the
Street was one of the civil works that were carried out since by the 20th
century the Street had a runoff in the middle which served to make the
rainwater And from the houses ran down the center of the Street.
This
construction work was under the mandate of Maximiliano Hernández who was the
president of the republic and authorities such as Colonel Oscar Osorio
(1910-1969) president of the republic and some influences of presidents who
were born in Santa Ana and as gratitude To the people who saw them grow helped
to modernize the city.
The city of
Santa Ana was not the meaning, the names of some emblematic places of this city
changed like the central place of the city that is in the historical center
colonial of this one and that previously was known as Plaza de Armas, since
there Was the place that the authorities of the city kept the munitions and
soon with the change of name was called Liberty Park.
Some
streets are named important dates of the cry of independence as November 11,
November 24, other streets bear names of values such as Libertad Street that
represent what the cry for independence in El Salvador.
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