When Montevideo was a colonial walled city and the area of Peñarol had no name and was all farms field, Giovanni Battista Crosa an
oriundo from
Pinerolo (
Piedmont, Italy), set up a grocery store in 1776, where today is the intersection of Coronel Raíz and Route 102 (perimeter), in the currently piped nascent Miguelete stream. Crosa nicknamed the district with the name of his hometown,
Pinerolo, whose name is
Pinareul in
Piedmontese (or
Pignerol in French) and was
corrupted in popular speech as Peñarol. ==Places of worship==