It is post, they left legacies

October 7, 2021 – 00:00

With a football match at the former Rural Society riding arena, which recalled the first match of the country played by women’s teams 108 years ago in that same property, the Municipality presented the new tourist circuit of Rosary dedicated to women who marked the history of the city. It is the first of 14 posts that the circuit has, places that remember women who left valuable legacies in unionism, the founding of hospitals, the promotion of new pedagogical practices, art and also joining professions or occupied trades, for those years, exclusively by men.

“The circuit values ​​all the Rosario women who have established a struggle to obtain the rights they should always have. In this action what is sport and tourism are merged since the main milestone is a women’s match that was played here “, said the Secretary of Sport and Tourism, Adrián Ghiglione.

October 5 was the date chosen because it was the day that the Fémina club game was played in 1913, with two teams called “Las Rosas” and “Las Celestes “. The players who recreated that match wore those colors, this time carrying on their backs the names of the women who make up the 14 posts of the route. The game was commented live by Bianca Ossola, a journalist who carried out the investigation. The Undersecretary of Tourism, Alejandra Mattheus, said: “With this match the women’s circuit was inaugurated, who paved the way and left their mark on our city.”

The route is made up of 14 posts distributed throughout the city.

The first was fixed in the former Rural and is called Las Rosas y Las Celestes recalling that first women’s soccer game.

Emilia Bertolé, painter and poet born in El Trébol has post 2 at the Castagnino Museum.

Virginia Bolten, in Plaza López is station 3, and the educator Juana Elena Blanco is station 4, in the school that bears her name, in Pasco 450.

Laureana Correa and Margarita Mazza are station 5 at the Provincial Hospital for their performance in charitable institutions.

Post 6 is in recognition of María Catalina Echeverría, one of the women who helped Manuel Belgrano in making the flag. Its brand is located in Córdoba and Juan Manuel de Rosas. Lola Mora in Paseo Juramento is post 7.

Firma Mayor, post 8 at the Estévez Museum; Dolores Dabat, educator and director of Normal School No. 2, has station 9 at that school, and Angela Joostens, who left an important legacy for the city by donating a model maternity hospital, with station 10, at the Martin Maternity. Post 11 is named after Francisca Montaut, the first woman to receive a medical degree in Rosario and is in the Faculty of Medicine.

Alfonsina Storni has post 12 in Mendoza and Constitución. There, his family opened the Café Suizo Warehouse. Post 13 is for sisters Olga and Leticia Cossettini and is at the Carrasco School. Post 14 will be Mary Terán, tennis player from Rosario, at the Rosario Rowing Club.

During the act, a commemorative plaque was handed out that it will remain in place and will be the beginning of the new circuit that adds to the existing ones in the city.

The circuit can be done for free and self-guided from the website of Ente Turístico Rosario or by downloading the Rosario Turismo mobile app.