Penarol (neighborhood)
Peñarol is a neighborhood in the city of Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. It is located in the northwest area of the city and approximately in the center of the department of the same name. Its name comes from the Italian city of Pinerolo in the Piedmont region.
It had a great boom at the time when the railway workshops operated there. They were later abandoned. In any case, it is still one of the train stations that remain in the city of Montevideo. In 2009 the new Peñarol station was inaugurated, with the intention of giving the neighborhood more life and popularity.
History
When Montevideo was a walled colonial city and the Peñarol area had no name and was all fields with farms, Juna Bautista Crosa, a native of the town of Pinerolo (Piedmont, Italy), installed a grocery store in 1776 where today is the intersection de Coronel Raíz and route 102 (perimeter), in the currently tubed headwaters of the Miguelete stream.
Crosa gave himself the name of his town of origin as a nickname, which in Piedmontese is pronounced Pinareul and popular speech deformed it into Peñarol.
The grocery stores were meeting and reference places for neighbors and travelers (on foot, on horseback, in wagons and stagecoaches), which led to the informal designation of the business and the area as Peñarol.
Crosa died in 1790 and was buried in the holy field of the chapel next to the grocery store, which was also called Peñarol.
Location of the Ossuary that contains the remains of Juan Bautista Crosa, on Google maps or Google earth -34.7979097259, -56.1954716853.
Photos of the Ossuary, http://municipiog.montevideo.gub.uy/node/196
The railway of the late 19th century
A century after Crosa's death, in 1890, the first mature industrial revolution arrived in Peñarol, with the installation of the English railway workshops of the company Ferro Carril Central del Uruguay (FCCU), founded in 1876.
The train station and the first workshop began operating in 1891, giving rise to an industrial enclave, later a villa and finally another neighborhood of Montevideo.
By the end of 1907, the company Ferro Carril Central had already built the 33 thousand square meters that are still standing and that since 1975 have been legally a National Monument. This is made up of: workshops (mechanics, blacksmithing, foundry, sawmill, carpentry, painting, warehouses, remittances, technical offices and printing), 44 homes for workers, 8 homes for senior and intermediate staff, a general store, a place for social meeting and recreation called Centro Artesano and a theater (from 30, also a cinema).
Historical center in recovery
The historic center and the industrial railway landscape of the Peñarol neighborhood can be explored on foot following the following streets: Shakespeare (train station), Sayago, Morse, Carlyle, Rivarola, Saravia to the starting point, Shakespeare. The first unit of what is being set up as an on-site museum is already operating at the train station: the waiting room and the historical offices of the station house the equipment from 1920, telegraphs, telephones, block staff, date stamp, tickets, furniture and old images are on display and there is a guided tour.
This is part of a plan to recover the heritage of the Peñarol neighborhood carried out by the Municipality of Montevideo in agreement with the State Railway Administration. The theater and cinema room is currently being refurbished and its opening is scheduled for the end of 2011.
The Municipality of Montevideo and the Ministry of Education and Culture presented to UNESCO the document "Peñarol Neighborhood: historic center and railway industrial landscape", so that the original enclave is considered a World Heritage Site.
Other features
In addition to the historic center, Peñarol has a rural area of farms -where Crosa's grocery store was located- and a series of industries, such as Motociclo, Bimbo, Levaduras Terry, Schneck, Andamios Tubulares and Becam.
Peñarol also has schools (34, 166 and 258) and public (N°40) and private (Secundario del Norte) high schools, a shopping center on Saravia street between Coronel Raíz and Shakespeare streets, a neighborhood fair on Thursdays and Sundays, a municipal polyclinic, an INDA soup kitchen, as well as housing cooperatives, Mesa II being the largest.
The clubs with the longest tradition are CE.SO.PE. (Peñarol Social Center) and Uruguay Peñarol.
Places of interest in the neighborhood
| PEÑAROL STATION: The Peñarol train station started working in 1891. In 2009, the new station was inaugurated, with the intention of giving more life and popularity to the neighborhood. The building was arranged, children's games were put in its surroundings, and a skateboard was created. _ The English company Ferro Carril Central of Uruguay built the houses to house AFE workers at the end of the centuryXIX. They are currently part of the historic centre. _ The neighborhood has several educational institutions for example the nursery N° 365 Atahualpa del Cioppo which is located on the street Sayago 1581 corner Aparicio Saravia. "JUAN BAUTISTA CROSA DE PINEROLO": N°258 School began to operate 12 May 1976 under the direction of the Master Director, Ms. Ivonia Carabajal. She started with 11 students, only in the evening shift and had four classrooms. It worked in Table 2. Then, on 27 October 1995 the school was called “Juan Bautista Crosa de Pinerolo” in homage to one of the first settlers who gave birth to the neighborhood. Over time, in February 1999, the construction of the new premises with funds from the MECAEP project began and was the 13 May 2000 the inauguration of the new building where it is located today. PARQUE LINEAL: The linear park is divided into two parts by Senén Rodríguez Street. In one of these parts there are games for children and in the other there are different options to do exercises: two football courts and appliances. RADIO ACTIVA: In Peñarol there is Radio Activa, its pillars are to encourage the critical spirit of respect, tolerance and diversity. It is located on Sayago Avenue 1561. THE TROMPO: The Trompo is located in Aparicio Saravia and Newton. It is not known for sure who put it in that place, nor for what and there are several versions around it. One of them says it was a part of a canyon of the time of the Spanish colonization of 1765-1790. BARRIO PEÑAROL CENTRE: The Centro de Barrio Peñarol (CBP) is an initiative of the Office of Budget Planning, managed by the Municipality G, which aims at social inclusion. In the creation of the Centro de Barrio Peñarol included the recovery of the offices of the Mechanical Engineer – including the gaming house and the stables – and the Head of Warehouses of Central Uruguay Railway. The buildings date back to the last decade of the centuryXIX, they were built as housing of the hierarchical staff of the English railway and are currently historical heritage. One of the slogans of the project is to offer the more than 66 thousand inhabitants of the neighborhoods, Peñarol, Sayago, Colón and Lavalleja, a set of services betting at all ages. Taking place in the same facilities for various recreational, educational and artistic activities to bring the community of the Peñarol neighborhood and adyacencias. USINA CULTURAL PEÑAROL: It is located within Centro de Barrio Peñarol; it is an enterprise promoted by the Planning and Budget Office, currently managed by the IM G Municipality. It is the eighteenth cultural user in the country. Its opening was on May 12, 2017 through an agreement between Municipality G and the National Directorate of Culture of MEC. The team is composed of Agostina Dati, Pablo Franco and Santiago Bolognini. It's in Br. Aparicio Saravia 4683 and Av. Sayago. |
| PUENTE: Before the bridge did not exist and there was darkness. This caused some accidents and to avoid them this bridge was built. |