The Historic Ensemble El Toscal is a residential urban complex northwest of the city of Santa Cruz, within the so-called Barrio de El Toscal. This protected area since 2007 is delimited by San Miguel streets, Paseo Pintor Teodoro R os, El Saludo street, La Rosa street, San Antonio street, San Antonio street, San Francisco Javier street, San Vicente Ferrer street and Santiago street . In its origins, El Toscal, or Los Toscales or Las Toscas, constitutes an extensive area of orchards, cement and buckets that cover the west and north of the primitive hull. Concerning history and reviewing old cartography, the plan of 1771 made by Jose Ru z, a military engineer, it can be seen that the space that comprises the neighborhood of El Toscal is completely empty, only being found in some small as constructions, roads, ravines and orchards that delineate it. In the words of the architect Federico Garc a Barba u2018 A kind of suburb with lots of orchards crossed by ravines that divide it from North to South u2019. At the end of the 18th century it was already established as one of the city's peripheral neighborhoods, gaining great importance at the stage of urban expansion and port development of the late 19th and early 20th centuries where the appearance of urban entrepreneurship static (Building Societies) in the 1860-80 years, collaborating with the second major expansion of the city.
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