Vera Cruz History

As many communes in Santiago, this neighborhood was built in the 19th century, thanks to a church: the p arish of Vera Cruz built in 1857. During that period, there were built several houses around, but it was not until 1872 and 1910, with the remodeling of the Santa Lucia Hill, the creation of forest park and the construction of the National Palace of Bellas Artes, where the district was consolidated as one of the most important neighborhood of the epoch.
Important people such as Doña Victoria Subercaseaux, cousin, and wife of the late Mayor of Santiago Benjamin vicuña Mackenna; Pedro Aguirre Cerda, President of Chile between 1938 and 1941, and the writer and liberal thinker d on José Victorino Lastarria . Intellectuals and artists recognized in our country, as the architect and painter Nemesio Antúnez, for example. They all gave a new meaning to this place as the center of arts and thought. …show more content…
At the end of the 20th century, the environment is renewed: It was restored facades and recovering old buildings , as the case of the parish of Vera Cruz, declared a historical monument, whose restoration was carried out between the years 2001 and 2002. Lastarria neighborhood despite sketches of modernity keeps its urban features of yesteryear and above all that it breathes tradition that makes it special, as a small tribe, in this great