Plaza Fernández Madrid (Antiguamente Plaza de los Jagüeyes)
Shaded colonial square built over a former watering hole for livestock and a colonial water source.
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This guide to Plaza Fernandez Madrid in Cartagena's San Diego neighborhood begins in 1572, when the colonial governor ordered a watering trough dug into a natural hollow that gave the square its first name, a Taino word for a place to drink. It follows the plaza through more than three centuries of change, from cattle and water-carriers to a church rededication and a failed push to rename it for a general. Look down at the shaded square today, where more than one story, real and possibly fictional, is said to have begun.
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