History of Settlers, Corsairs and Próceres ...

Many legends have come to our notice explaining the reason for the name of our beautiful island. One very popular explains that this beautiful island is named after an elusive dream of Christopher Columbus who gave him the name of Princess Margaret of Austria because of his love for her. Another said that his name is because a large center pearl being the time that responds to the translation of "pearl" in Greek.

Its first inhabitants, the Indians knew it Guaiqueríes with Paraguachoa name which translated means "place of abundant fish, prime feature of which was inhabited and conquered before other sectors of the country.

His first city was called Nueva Cadiz was established in 1500 on the sister island of Cubagua, and sadly devastated by a tsunami. Another city founded in the early days of the colony was "People of the Sea" known today as Porlamar was founded on March 26 1536 and today is the center of a thriving commercial and tourist activity.

Promptly its strategic geographic position made it a point of entry to the Venezuelan coast, which explains the many castles and fortifications that remain even today as the castles of Pampatar Juangriego, Santa Ana and La Asuncion, in which Spanish sovereignty was defended by corsairs and pirates who craved the wealth produced in these lands.

But it was not until the rise of the independence movement when being part of it as one of the seven United Provinces against the Spanish Crown, the islands acquired the name of Nueva Esparta state, as their men and women deserve for their tremendous sacrifices the nickname of neo-Spartans, remembering the sacrifices made by the province of Sparta in ancient Greece.

Daisy is full of memories of that glorious era in which its inhabitants rose up against the tyranny of the Spanish Crown and formed together with six other provinces as we now know as Venezuela. In memory of this with pride and worth mentioning:

! One of the eight stars of the Venezuelan flag is margarita!

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