Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Prologue ..............................................................................................2

I. Panoramic Mural of Santa Cruz and San Gil of the New Baeza..........4

II. Pieces for a Drop Curtain................................................................... 9

III. The Guanes......................................................................................13

IV. Discovery and Conquest of the Region of Guanenta.......................22

V. The Foundation.................................................................................25

VI. Record of Foundation of the Town of Santa Cruz............................30

VII. Coat of Arms...................................................................................34

VIII. Our Name Given to the People of Our Region...............................38

IX. Picture of a Founder........................................................................40

X. Nest of Founders..............................................................................42

XI. Composition of Lands and Limits....................................................43

XII. First Agreements and Authorities...................................................47

XIII. Gallery of Authorities.....................................................................49

XIV. Titles of the Town..........................................................................52

XV. The One Who is Not Rueda (Wheel), Silva (Poem).......................53

XVI. Descriptions of the Old Town........................................................56

XVII. The Department of Galan.............................................................58

XVIII. The Province of Guanenta...........................................................60

XIX. San Gil, City of the Comuneros.....................................................69

XX. A Romance of Bolivar.....................................................................85

XXI. The Guanenta University...............................................................91

XXII. The Diocese.............................................................................102

XXIII. The Plaza Mayor, the Cathedral.............................................109

XXIV. The Tribunal...........................................................................117

XXV. Half a Century of Journalism...................................................119

XXVI. Seignorial Centers.................................................................123

XXVII. Emporium of Touristic Beauties............................................124

XXVIII. Institutions of Development.................................................129

XXIX. Guanentino Folklore..............................................................134

XXX. Manorial and anthological poetry...........................................138

XXXI. Geopolitics.............................................................................144

XXXII. Societies of Beneficence......................................................152

XXXIII. Minimal Biographies of the Maximum Sangilenos...............157

XXXIV. Lope de Rueda.....................................................................184