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Plaza Degetau
Plaza Degetau, formally Plaza Federico Degetau, is the larger of two plazas at ''Plaza Las Delicias'', the main city square in the city of Ponce, Puerto Rico. The other plaza is named Plaza Muñoz Rivera and is located north of Plaza Degetau. The square is notable for its fountains and for the various monuments it contains. The historic Parque de Bombas and Ponce Cathedral buildings are located bordering the north side of this plaza. The square is the center of the Ponce Historic Zone, and it is flanked by the historic Ponce City Hall to the south, the Cathedral and historic firehouse to the north, the NRHP-listed Banco Crédito y Ahorro Ponceño and Banco de Ponce buildings to the east, and the Armstrong-Poventud Residence to the west. The square dates back to the early Spanish settlement in Ponce of 1670. It is the main tourist attraction of the city, receiving about a quarter of a million visitors per year.〔Based on the documented number of visitors at the nearby Serralles Castle (''See'').〕
==History==
According to the traditional Spanish colonial custom, a town's main square, or plaza, was the center of the town. In the case of Ponce, a Catholic church was built on the center of the plaza, thus splitting the plaza into two sections.〔(Plaza Las Delicias. Ponce > Ciudad Senorial > Atracciones Turisticas. Official Website of the Government of the Autonomous Municipality of Ponce. ) Retrieved July 18, 2010.〕 Plaza Degetau is the southern of the two sections, with the other plaza, ''Plaza Muñoz Rivera'', located to the north of Plaza Federico Degetau''. Plaza Degetau measures a little over half of 8,800 square meters.〔(Ramon Marin. ''Las Fiestas Populares de Ponce.'' Page 200. )〕
The history of Plaza Degetau dates back to as far as the creation of the first Catholic chapel in Ponce in 1670.〔(Doris Vazquez. Spain in Puerto Rico: Early Settlements. The Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. 1986. ) Retrieved November 22, 2009.〕 It is also known that around 1840 Mayor Salvador de Vives planted trees as a renovation project for plaza.〔(By Guillermo A. Baralt. ''Buena Vista: life and work on a Puerto Rican hacienda, 1833-1904.'' Page 12. )〕 It was first lit in 1864.〔(''Salsa, sabor y control!: sociología de la música "tropical".'' Ángel G. Quintero Rivera. )〕 The Plaza, as it stands today, was designed by architect Francisco Porrata-Doria in 1914.〔(Architecture of Parish Churches in Puerto Rico. ) Page 184. Thomas S. Marvel and María Luisa Moreno. University of Puerto Rico. 1993. Retrieved January 8, 2011.〕
In addition to the Cathedral and the firehouse, Plaza Degetau at one point also contained an open dining Moorish-style Arab kiosk that had been part of the 1882 Fair Exposition.〔(1882-1914 Kiosk )〕 The kiosk was still present at the time of the American invasion of the island in 1898 as reported by American photo-journalist William Dinwiddie,〔(Puerto Rico: its conditions and possibilities. William Dinwiddie. New York: Harper and Brothers. 1899. Page 189. )〕 but it was demolished in 1914.〔(''Las fiestas populares de Ponce.'' Page 23. Ramón Marín. 1994. University of Puerto Rico Press. ) Accessed 19 February 2011.〕
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