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ISAAC STREET (DEL) TATO

The city street is filled with friendly names, the origin of many of which have been lost in the mists of time. Unfortunately, in Alicante those names were gradually replaced with more serious from the second half of the nineteenth century and were never recovered. Other cities like Elche, or it does Xixona recovered again traditional denominations.

Today we deal with a street with a curious name. This is Tato Street located in the primordial del Barrio de San Blas. We already anticipate that refers to a person, not the famous "Tato" the popular saying.

During the nineteenth century there was an unwritten rule that said that street names should be as short as possible (we, contrary to what happens today.) Thus we have the streets of Ojeda, Coloma, Brown (General), Foglietti, Maisonnave, Lanuza and some others. With more than enough to remember the name of a person. That over the years has meant that, for example, many people think that Paris Street refers to the French capital when it is not. Well

say who was Mr. Tato:

The street is dedicated to the merchant and founder of the Barrio de San Blas, Jose Maria Tato which we know was born about 1803, died unmarried and picked up the first group of 40 houses the neighborhood in the second half of the nineteenth century (60 'approx.) This square block of 10 houses on each side was defined by current Guarner Bond Street (formerly Station) Tato, Doctor Santaolalla (formerly Pilgrim) and Charlotte Pasarón.

Her nephew Julian Tato Thomas, born in Ceuta in 1833 established a steam-driven flour mill in that city block. Tato Thomas would Alicante Mayor for a short time in 1882. C ontrajo married Henrietta Girones Ortega (sister of Juan Ortega, both street in the neighborhood.) From this marriage would be born at least four sons named Henry, Thomas (editor of The Republican Grader) , Ramon and Jose (father of Gaspar Tato Cumming, also street el barrio y que falleció en 2002 a los 96 años de edad).

Molino harinero de Tomás Tato Julián en 1880.
Se aprecia la primera manzana de casas

Tomás también estuvo vinculado a la fundación del Barrio de Tato (así lo llaman en 1908). En 1877 solicita la dotación de agua corriente para el grupo de casas (seguramente para poner en marcha su molino movido a vapor)

Siguiendo con los orígenes del barrio, sabemos que se instaló entre las casas de Tato y la estación de MZA una fábrica de chocolates llamada "La Industrial Alicantina" propiedad de los Guarner Brothers Bank. Thanks to the proximity of the factory, Tato mill, railroad station and other plants such as esparto that were settled in the area, the neighborhood was growing rapidly.

Chocolate Factory Alicante
The Industrial Bank of Brothers Guarner in 1880.
was built on the 70.
It shows a train passing in front of the factory.

With the advent of the Civil War, Tato Street is transferred to the name of Lieutenant Castillo. José Castillo Saenz de Tejada (1901-1936) was a Military assigned to the Anti-fascist Military Union Republican who was killed in Madrid on July 12, 1936. By way of revenge was assassinated days after José Calvo Sotelo . This latest killing would lead to the advancement of the military uprising of 18 July 1936. Not only the neighborhood's streets were renamed. The neighborhood itself was renamed Liberty neighborhood until 1939.

Vaillard picture Oscar. February 13, 1896.
Tossal is observed (behind tree), the
Houses Alicante Tato and Industrial

In December 1940 the mother of Carmen and Gaspar Tato Cumming, Ms Mercedes Cumming Tato , daughter of vice-consul Gaspar (Jasper) Cumming Macaulay , a native of Belfast (another street!) And Carmen Tato Tato , asks the road still dedicated to Lieutenant Castillo Street again called Tato after the founder of the neighborhood Tato Thomas Julian, which is approved in full. Suggests that both Thomas as Tato Tato José María founded the San Blas neighborhood but confuses the origin of the name of the street. It is not surprising therefore that there was a company called "Tato and nephews."

So just read it is clear Tatos both (and a few others) had an important role in the founding and development of the Barrio de San Blas. Today

Street Tato Bond begins in Guarner and ends in a somewhat strange in the corner of Calle del Doctor Santaolalla, although the street ends abruptly just over there, particularly at home in front the said street, leading into the house next door to the first issue of the street from Cardinal Payá (until 1927 called St. Augustine). This is because Tato Street ended at the corner of Industrial Alicante and that "border" between the two streets has continued to this day despite the opening of the Rue de Callosa de Segura.

Now as usual we put some historical maps:

Tato Quarter and Chocolate Factory in 1897. Among the current
Tato streets and see a tavern Juan Ortega


San Blas in 1928 approx. In red Tato Homes and blue
Brothers Factory Bono.
still appreciates the tavern.

San Blas in 1940 approx. In red Tato Homes and blue
Brothers Factory Bono. The house still seems
ventorrillo standing. No name appears Tato Street.

San Blas in 1967 approx. In red Tato Homes and blue
Brothers Factory Bono. They have confused the
Street with Carmen Tato Tato.

San Blas 1985. The red boundaries Tato
Houses in blue and the Industrial Alicante.
Street is being urbanized Callosa de Segura

The same area today. The red boundaries Tato
Homes and in blue of Alicante Industrial

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BALMES VS.

As we will discover in this blog, Alicante has repeated several streets that is dedicated to the same person, place or thing. We recently spoke to the streets of August, although it is not repeated, is split into two sections separated by a block of houses (!)

will leave for later repeated some of these streets and we will focus today in two urban streets that sound almost the same and are often confused: Balmes Street and the Plaza del Doctor Balmis.


Let's start with the first of it. The origin of Balmes Street is to be found in the square on which stood the Central Market, the Plaza de Balmes which was located between the streets / avenues of Captain Segarra (before extension of Chestnut), Calderón de la Barca and Alfonso the Wise.

The oldest data we found this place in 1887. At that time Jaime Esquembre and Puerto commissioned the architect José González Artés building a house at the junction of Calle de Bazán (now Garcia Morato), Avenida de Alfonso el Sabio and Plaza de Balmes. It seems that this is the site where years later the Hall would rise later would lead Modern Cinema Lounge at Monumental Modern-now sadly gone.

The first thing we found on the construction of a building to Market at the Plaza de Balmes 1900. At that time they submit the projects of architects and Guardiola Fajardo appearing years later in Juan Vidal. the end, the project would be started this by Prospero Lafarga and finished by Juan Vidal and in the 20's. Since then the name would Balmes to label one of the facades of the square, becoming street. In 1991 the new position resulting from the demolition of the vegetable market renamed Market Square, named in 2010 at the request Alicante Vivo, is being gradually phased out by the Plaza on May 25 in memory of the terrible bombing of 1938 fascist.

Plaza Project May 25.
INFORMATION July 26, 1986

But who was Balmes? Let's see. Jaume Balmes i Urpi was a Catalan philosopher and theologian who lived in the first half of the nineteenth century. Wrote among other works "political considerations on the situation in Spain", "Religion shown the reach of children" or "Letters to a skeptic in matters of religion" newspaper founded in Madrid " The thought of the nation." Some of his works have been republished recently. The marking of this place probably took place after the Revolution of 1868 since according to Vidal Tur Balmes ideas were fashionable at that time on the grounds that the Academy Square Balmes. There was also Villegas Street Circle Jaime Balmes "

Why not, here are a few levels:

Year 1897. In the center of the Plaza de Balmes
we installed the Teatro Circo. It is currently in Orihuela.
a wooden building was dismantled and mobile.

Year 1900 approx. Balmes Square
clearly distinguished. P. Street Mariana appears as the current
Manuel Antón Errors?


Year 1915 approx. El Barrio de San Fernando
or Las Delicias is just a project.


Year 1920 approx. La Plaza de Balmes
plaza is cited as important.

Balmes Street and Plaza on May 25 today.
In green the perimeter of the old Plaza de Balmes
as plans that we have consulted.

Now to the Plaza del Doctor Balmis. This charming little plaza arising out of demolition of dilapidated houses a block located between the streets of the Lemons, Our Lady of the Forsaken, El Cid (before Paradise) and Canalejas (formerly Vaults). The demolition of these houses was the responsibility of the employer to cooperage José Torrent and Maluenda (or Maru) why this site was known as Plaza de Torrent, although it seems that until 1919 it was dedicated to the place lacked Balmis official name. Still found in 1917 newspaper advertisements that refer to a home school that has balconies to the "Square Torrent.

Torrent
can say a ruler who was born in the then suburb of San Francisco. She was active in the Liberal ranks and was playing Alicante city council charges including that of member of the Local Board of Education. He died on February 4, 1898. At least he had two sons named José Emilio and Torrent Romá.

know your business that opened in 1863 and the December 12 1907 installed on your cooperage Explanda of Spain 14 (today Canalejas Park-Dr. Ramón y Cajal) was destroyed in a fire, although it seems that re-opened since its data are operation in 1910 by his son Joseph . In 1928 he was advertising in trade directories already addressed Ramón y Cajal 14.

, 1928 Announcement of the "Great Tubs" by José Torrent.
Located in Ramón y Cajal 14 (before Esplanade of Spain)

Torrent Don José in front of his shop Canalejas
Vaillard picture Oscar in 1896

Factory Barrels Torrent in 1896 Joseph
(Photo by Oscar Vaillard)

Returning to the history of the square, we know that the February 7, 1919, Alicante City Council agreed to give the name of Doctor Balmis to Niagara Street (before cataract) but seven days after the approval is revoked and decide which is the Plaza de Torrent the pass to be dedicated to Francisco Xavier Balmis . Five days after the municipal authorities Rep. José Francos Rodríguez, military and religious came to discover the sign of the square (the work of Vicente Bañuls , disappeared) accompanied by the Band and the large audience present there.

Fountain Square of General Mancha in 2010.
to the 90 was in Dr. Balmis

One of the most memorable elements of this square is the fountain adorned it until the 90's and today remains half-hidden in the Plaza del General Mancha. It appears that in April 1915 decided to move a source from the Plaza de Isabel II (Gabriel Miró) to the Plaza de Torrent (Dr. Balmis). We do not know if he reached the square or stayed in the nearby Calle de San Quintin, because in 1947 he ordered to move the source of the street to the Plaza del Dr. Balmis. Could it be that in 1915 the source was direct and not San Quentin Balmis? "He moved and then returned? To be the same source we are, no doubt, to the source traveling in Spain ...

As final data on the history of this place, adding that the Civil War left its mark on it. Its basement housed (and home) an air raid shelter for 250 people. In 1945 the municipal architect Felix Arzúa made some plans for this shelter from the Civil War (and many others), fearing an Allied invasion in the Mediterranean. Let us now
Doctor
Francisco Xavier de Balmis and Berenguer: born in 1783 in the current Fruit Plaza (now Holy Face) in Alicante. As a physician up to the English colonies in America studying STDs in 1794 published his work "Treatise on the virtues of agave and begonia" . After becoming a physician to Charles IV convinces him to cover the cost of an expedition to America and the Philippines to spread the new smallpox vaccine which carried several children inoculated. Balmis died in Madrid in 1819. Favorite Son of Alicante is since May 2003, is a school with his name and has a statue donated by Mexico in Sant Joan d'Alacant. It also has a dedicated street in Mexico City. It is planned for 2011 in addition to shooting a film about his expedition. We end this

article with a completely level:

Year 1853. Paradise Street (El Cid) still does not cross the street
Vaults (Canalejas). In the decade of 1880
would last until Luchana Street (Dr. Gadea)
in the foreground is occupied by the walls.

Year 1900 approx. The Plaza del Doctor

Balmis not exist yet.


Although a level of 1915 approx. Cid Street crosses
Canalejas (which still call Vaults).
is a little flat
outdated

Plaza del Doctor Balmis now