Santa Bárbara, Chihuahua

Santa Barbara, Chih. It originated with the discovery of mines in 1564 by Captain Don Rodrigo River of Loss. Significance of the shield: In the upper right quarter shows the effigy of one of the thousands of hardworking miners have always been the main labor force, and that more than four centuries have worked in its bowels. In the upper left quarter, is the effigy of the founder who was in town. The five stylized mountains that appear at the bottom of the picture, which adorns the backdrop of the scenic Santa Barbara, ie land, with its immense blue sky and clouds of water benefactors, at the extremes of the castles "Mine Water "and" owls "that the lady working the city and its main street perspective that splits in two, letting us see the figure of his old church, the only colonial jewel that still endures and the clock tower, a traditional representation of a time boom that continues to govern the hours of provincial life, the colors represent the gray tailings of your post. * Finally: Up Chihuahua city, the clubs, essential gambusino as decorative figures, while eight of its most famous mines: owls, Mina de Agua, Segovedad, Coyote, Alexandria, Cobriza, Clarin and La Paz. Below this may be a significant theme of "Value, Labor, Hospitality, very honorable virtues for any people that with determination and faith working their mines, and hard work of four centuries and fraternal hospitality that welcomes visitors to arrive soon. In various documents of the seventeenth century referred to as Villa Santa Barbara, and became known as such for almost three centuries. In 1778 the jurisdiction of Santa Barbara as Mayor in the province of Nueva Vizcaya, was transformed into subdelegation Real. In 1820 the Constitution of Cadiz erected in the municipality. In 1930 the state legislature granted a city

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

CULTURAL AND TOURIST ATTRACTIONS

Historical Monuments: Parroquia (data around 1571). founded by Franciscan missionaries. Jesuit missionaries in 1590 added the bell tower. It is likely that its construction has been completed between the years 1618-1628. Had oil paintings of some of the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries, is now counting two that represent the images of the Virgin of Santa Barbara and a bishop. - Public Clock, brought from Germany in 1907, costing at that time a thousand pesos. Currently working the original machine, changing the covers and adding an attachment to e at 6 am, the 12 hours from noon to 6 pm and 10 pm tap the musical notes of a melody is became very famous in his time in our city, "Amor Perdido" (reconstruction done by the Municipal Administration from 1998 to 2001). - Railway Station, built in the late nineteenth century. It has now been enabled as a Municipal Public Library in the network of national libraries. In the adjacent part, a fair dedicated to the home of the artisan, location of the sale of the crafts community. - Main Plaza, built in 1901 and this time the date has had several renovations, in 1967, making him touch the original onset. - Monument to the Chihuahuan unit in the festivities of the fourth centenary of the founding of the population, we tried that all municipalities of the State, (67), make a block or stone with the marks of his town, to this way forming a kind of pyramid with the blocks and establish the Unity Chihuahuan symbolically. Administration in 92 - 95, moved from their original place so far where they are located, giving way to the monument to the flag that symbolizes the legend of Quetzalcoatl, and the monument to the unit was added, a large shield of city and two large boards on which account in allegorical form the foundation of the population. - Construction of the Porfiriato, currently there are three characteristics of buildings that house the stage, a particular property, one that functioned as a hotel called "Hotel Vendome, and now a meeting room. And the rest is occupied by a school, (and a Telebachillerato CEDEX), and also the Museo Comunitario "The Miner". - Municipal President, always work from the triumph of reform in place that today occupies only from 1935-37 was added a second floor and that the prison was in another place was added to the same building. Different administrations have been reshaped. - Monument to the Foundation for 1967, by agreement of the town square was built in honor of the founding of the town and to pay tribute to the Spanish expeditions that left Santa Barbara in order to discover and conquer lands northwards . This place is known as the Plaza de Don Rodrigo Rio and Loss. - Monumento a la Madre, built in 1967 with financial contribution of all pupils in all schools. - Monument "Ruta de Oñate, by agreement between the governments of the state of New Mexico (USA), and the state of Chihuahua (1992), was rebuilt by monuments, the route followed by the great caravan, led by Don Juan de Oñate, to get to discover and conquer and eventually establish missions and towns throughout the point of Santa Barbara, to the place which he founded and which I call "San Gabriel de los Caballeros." - Monument to the Miner, in the 1992-95 takes the idea a long time had passed by countless people and was to pay tribute to the miners and so instead of moving the monument to the flag at the site today holds, then it uses its main base to place the structure that holds the statue. The monument to the flag comes to occupy its site where the monument to the unit. - Monument of the Americas Benemérito, this monument was erected in 1954 at the express request of the local Masonic Lodge, establishing it in the place of the old and poorly managed Market Santa Barbara and then the square in honor of mothers. - Monumento a Cristo Rey, located on the hills of sunken, with a framework called "Viewpoints". Iron monument was inaugurated in July 2005, paragraph entirely what was the original draft. - Santa Barbara Museum, the memorial sent by the State Government was inaugurated in July 2005, to honor the name of the people. - Black Bridge, the steel structure was built in 1937 by the mining company and is used since then as a means of communication between their mines for hauling raw ore through an electric railway. The name is as long as the color was distinguished. This building is located at the entrance to the village which now forms part of the tradition and custom of the people.



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