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Plaza de Bolívar


Plaza de Bolívar

 
First known as Plaza de la Iglesia, then as Plaza Mayor; place where great military acts were presented at the time, but in 1610, when the Saint Inquisition Tribunal was installed in Cartagena de Indias it took the name of Plaza de la Inquisición.


Before, this park was a plaza where bullfights took place, here was were the town's taste for bullfights started.
On November 11th of 1896 is inaugurated the park where four years later the statue on a horse of the Libertador Simón Bolivar was placed, and today honors his name as Plaza de Bolivar.


   


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