Pasaje San Pedro

Barely sixty meters of cobblestone between two rows of façades: the Pasaje San Pedro is one of those streets crossed in a few steps and overlooked on maps. Its name points to the apostle Peter, the fisherman of Galilee whom Christian tradition made the rock of the Church and first pope, remembered with his two keys and his martyrdom in Rome, crucified upside down for not thinking himself worthy to die like his master. Why a shortcut in Prosperidad carries his name is not documented. The district was born in 1862, when Próspero Soynard began to parcel and sell dry farmland; it was raised by bricklayers and carpenters who put up low houses of brick and tile with a yard. The naming of those first streets grew without a plan. So the alley keeps its small mystery. What does remain fits in an image: two crossed keys, one of gold and one of silver, over a street you can walk in half a minute.