This Sunday the 24th, by virtue of commemorating the 213th anniversary of the founding of the Villa de San Fernando de la Florida, a document from the Cabildo de Montevideo dated 1809 was presented at the Departmental Historical Museum (MDH) that provides details of the foundation of the capital. departmental.
It is a text where the Cabildo de Montevideo informs the Junta de España, among other things, about the process of founding the town, detailing the reasons for the name in which King Fernando VII and the Count of Florida Blanca are evoked. Jose Moñino and Redondo 1st. President of the Boards in Spain.
In this sense, a press conference was held in the exhibition hall of the MHD in which the mayor Ing. Guillermo López, the president of the Departmental Board of Florida Omar González, the director of the Museum Prof. Guillermo Montaño and the collaborator Prof. Alberto Lamaita.
