The old location of the city in Cayastá, was carried out around the Square of Weapons, where the roll, locust trunk planted in the moment of the official foundation ran off with. It had eleven north apples at south and six of this to west and their traced was made in damero form. Near to the Square of Weapons, the main buildings were distributed, the Town council, the Main Church, the churches and convents of the Franciscans, the dominicos, the mercedarios and the Jesuit, and the streets and lots for the neighbors. Outside of the urban layout the lands were distributed for the chacras and the stays. At the moment it is conserved since half of the square the river it cut it in diagonal, the rest is low the waters the same as the house of Garay, the school and the Jesuit church and the churches Womb and San Asleep.
The name of Santa Fé. According to some historians, Garay called to the city Santa Fé in homage to the Catholic Fé of which Spain was for then universal defender in front of the Moors, Jews and Protestants. The Reyes Catholics gave the name of Santa Fé to the citadel fortified from the one that put place to the Granada that took finally in 1491/92. In the same one the capitulations and contracts were signed with Christopher Columbus. The name was taken by the early ones and founders implanting it as homage to the kings. The discovery of Christ's Cruz in ceramic pieces and documents would explain to the origin of Veracruz or Vera Cruz, reiterated in as many occasions as statement of the Christian Fé. The name of Santa Fé of the Veracruz, according to Federico Guillermo Cervera, already appears in the year 1651. |
