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Social Object of the House of Culture "Pedro Junco"

The mission of the Casas de Cultura system is to work for the development of participatory sociocultural processes from the promotion of artistic and literary appreciation and creation, in strengthening the movement of amateur artists and in interaction with institutions, organizations, organizations and others. social actors.

Historical review

The Pedro Junco Culture House

Until the decade that began in 1840 the origin of the property that today is known as Casa de Cultura´´Pedro Junco´´ dates back. This construction was built on a plot that had been larger, when between 1773 and 1776 the land taxer José Varea, by order of the Marquis de la Torre, had delivered several parcels for sale to the neighbors of the ´´Loma de Cuní´ , this would be called the elevation where the Independence Park is located today. About ten years later, there were only 20 houses and about 100 inhabitants in that wasteland, although it begins to have some development because the capital of the Jurisdiction of the new Filipina is moved to this hill. Don Luis Forteza would appear as the first owner of this land or plot, already divided by the road to Rio Feo and crossed by the Real del Hato de la Vega street, then Calle Mayor in 1819, and at his death, he bequeathed in different plots the place to His descendants.