federalist reforms of 1826.
Active political center, the pure pride of the local aristocracy was the creation of the Province of Talca , in 1833, erecting this city as his capital and breaking the dependence on the province of Colchagua. This same pride made of Talca, during the revolutions of 1851 and 1859, an active focus of insurrection opposite the central power.
Nineteenth Century: growth and splendor
During the nineteenth century urban growth was causing various neighborhoods. In 1845 the city limits passed the Alameda (formerly Avenue Recreation) and originated the current North neighborhood. In August 1874 opened the Teatro Municipal, magnificent architectural work product of the desires of the entire community talquina, and whose existence had the strong support of the then deputy mayor of Santiago and Talca Benjam�n Vicu�a Mackenna. See video of the inauguration Talca Municipal Theatre in 1874 . With the arrival of therailroad in 1875, was also born East neighborhood, whose focus is the Plaza Arturo Prat. In 1884 he installed a service trolleys or carts blood, by Gamero Street (now South Street 1). These were of American manufacture (Brill, of the built Filadelpia), but two-story like those in England. In 1916, encouraged by the success of the initiative last year Villa Alegre, the city bought used rolling stock and wagons signature CET & L of Santiago and launched its own tram system. By 1900 the city occupied much of what is now known as the Old Town, with a checkerboard plane, whose boundaries were the river course to the west, north Municipal Cemetery, East 18th Street to the east and the estuary Piduco , south.
First building of the Bank of Talca , talquino symbol of economic power in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Economically, the middle of the nineteenth century, the rise of agriculture and also the influence acquired by the local aristocracy, enabled the emergence of a thriving
