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The Bolívar square of El Hatillo is part of a reticule in an imperfect chessboard of eleven blocks that are organized in its surroundings. In front of it, the Santa Rosalía de Palermo church –restored by Graziano Gasparini—, which dates from the foundation of the town in the XVIII century when it was erected following the military engineer’s Juan Manuel Osés design, is located. In the surroundings of the square, the headquarters of Social and Cultural Center of El Hatillo and the Ateneo, among other houses dedicated to trade, stand out to the south. The lands of El Hatillo were once livestock ranches established by Francisco Infante in 1594, being founded as a town by Baltasar de León García and constituted into a parish by Mariano Martí in 1784. The historic quarters of El Hatillo are placed on a narrow plain with a moderate gradient that still preserves its traditional characteristics, its trace, and its urban profile. This part of town had its origin in the chapel of El Calvario, which is set at the northernmost point of the quarter, where it was erected in 1766 by Baltasar de León.
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