Hisotria

Calle de la mantilla

Don Baltasar de Soriano, high employee of the Real Hacienda lived in one of its houses with his daughter hija María deEncarnación. Don Juan Pérez de Guzmán was named governor of Cartagena in 1658 and fell in love with the girl. Pérez de Guzmán asked for her hand in marriage but thewedding wasn't carried on.
Later, he was named Governor of Puerto Rico and fled to the island on the first galleon that set sail without informing anyonein the family. When María de Encarnación found out about her fiance's departure, in great pain she strangled herself with the silk mantilla she used toattend mass on Sundays. The vile boyfriend apart form running out on her, left her pregnant. Since then the street was named of the Mantilla.

Calle de lasdamas
The leyend says that when the Governor Anastasio Zejudo Nuñez rendered information about the why the construction of the walls had cost a fortune tothe then king of Spain Charles VI, the king tried to see through a spyglass the magnitude of such an expensive work. Since this was impossible he decidedto disguise himself as a lady and travel all the way to Cartagena to take a closer look at the walls. He stayed in one of the houses of this street,obviously they came incognito and as no one could identify them, the neighbors imagined any theory that popped to their minds. At the end they could notestablish the identities of the ladies who returned to Spain after a few days. Since then this is the name of the street, Calle de las Damas. (Ladies Street)