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Plaza Fernández de Madrid
“He had seen her for the first time one afternoon when Lotario Thugut told him to deliver a telegram to someone named Lorenzo Daza, with no known place of residence. He found him in one of the oldest houses on the Park of the Evangels; it was half in ruins, and its interior patio, with weeds in the flowerpots and a stone fountain with no water, resembled an abbey cloister.”
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Fermina Daza lives with her husband Juvenal Urbino in a house located on the edge of the “Park of the Evangels”. Fermina lives for more than fifty years a conventional love, prisoner of her habits but sure of her choice. Their home is a bit dilapidated on the outside, but the inside is still sumptuous. It overlooks a beautiful square with trees and full of life. Although many of the places mentioned in Love in the Time of Cholera are fictional, they are inspired by real places.
Gabriel García Márquez, alias Gabo, modelled his “Park of the Evangels” on the Plaza Fernández in Madrid. A place not to be missed in Cartagena where the statue of the hero of independence José Fernández Madrid is enthroned in good place. The writer took as a model this place that he knows well, a very lively district of this Colombian municipality…
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Plaza Fernández Madrid (Antiguamente Plaza de los Jagüeyes)
Located in the heart of Cartagena’s historic center, the Plaza Fernández de Madrid faces the sumptuous Santo Toribio church.
Named after the Colombian independence hero José Fernández Madrid, signatory of the patriotic act of November 11, 1811, this square was originally called Plaza de los Jagüeyes and later Plaza de Santo Toribio.
Nowadays, people go there to eat in its many restaurants, attend street shows where artists, painters, acrobats, singers and dancers come to mingle with the public. A place of life to discover.
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