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It all began with the mess of an unplanned urbanization, letting things turn out as they came along, and \u201clet whoever comes behind fix it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The irregularity with which the Havana township of San Crist\u00f3bal was formed is reflected in the Cabildo (town council), where an alderman screamed out that \u201cthe streets be named, so that it is understood where the houses are to be built.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Following a method not exempt of daily poetry, the people started nominating the streets on the basis of circumstantiality. One was identified by the large number of artisans who practiced their trades (OFICIO) there; another, for a bishop\u2019s (OBISPO) morning walks; a third for the lamp (LAMPARILLA) that a devotee lit before a religious image.<\/span><\/p>\n

The eagle (AGUILA) painted on a tavern sign, a lush avocado (AGUACATE) tree, a still (ALAMBIQUE) or duct (ZANJA), the first aqueduct in the Americas, could also be the basis for the popular denomination.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s the pillory (PICOTA) where the prisoners were flogged, the lonely and helplessness of a place that seemed on purpose for the sorrowful (ANIMAS), and the stones (EMPEDRADO) with which a street was experimentally covered in which a large volume of water flowed in times of rain, a place where novelist Alejo Carpentier begins the action of <\/span>El siglo de las Luces<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nor were cattle corrals (CORRALES) missing, a large lantern in the shape of a star (ESTRELLA) or the perseverance (PERSEVERANCIA) it took for the construction of a street.<\/span><\/p>\n

GERVASIO (Rodr\u00edguez) was not a governor, nor a bishop or a renowned scientist: it was enough\u00a0 for him to have planted the first mango tree that was brought to Cuba. BERNAZA (Jos\u00e9) did nothing in his life but bake bread, but his surname names the street where Pl\u00e1cido, a famous poet-martyr, was born.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe charm, the attractiveness and the folkloric interest of these names that recall small or transcendental events in the life of a population, or their traditions and legends\u201d\u2014as historian Emilio Roig de Leuchsenring has said\u2014was enough for the people of Havana to give a name to the streets of their township.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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