La Antigua Veracruz

La Antigua Veracruz is a municipality and town in the Mexican state of Veracruz, which lies about 25 km north of the port of Veracruz. The river of the same location, location counts only 900 inhabitants, but is of historical significance. Its main attraction is the the time established by order of Hernán Cortés Casa de Cortés. The capital and administrative center of the municipality is José Cardel.

History

On Good Friday of 1519, the first Spanish fleet landed on Mexican soil. The built at this point of the Spanish sailors, led by Hernán Cortés settlement was given the name Villa Rica ( Rich Town ). It is regarded as the original, the first Vera Cruz.

Because raged at this very vulnerable point in the winter sometimes violent north winds, the Spaniards moved their settlement a few years later in a southerly direction at exactly the spot where now stands the La Antigua. The place is populated from 1525 as the second Veracruz. Here were stored from the Spanish colonial regions (Mexico, South America and the Philippines) collected treasures for decades and then shipped across Havana to Spain.

1585, the island of San Juan de Ulua was extended to the new main port. Around them was the present port of the (third) city of Veracruz and on the former, but now connected to the mainland island a fort was later built to protect against pirates. Around the year 1600 the port of La Antigua was shut down forever. As a result, the settlement disappeared into obscurity. Mainly the Casa de Cortés, the degenerate over the centuries to the ruin house of the former conqueror Hernán Cortés, it is thanks to them that at least a small number of tourists adds a little variety in the daily grind of the sleepy seaside village.

Literature and links

• Bernardo García Díaz: The State of Veracruz ( Ediciones Nueva Guía, SA de CV, 2002), p 93 ISBN 968-5437-28-9
• Report on La Antigua on the Internet ( English)

• Place in Veracruz