The best museums Central Coast

This beautiful house owes its name to one of its owners (in 1839), Colonel Celis. In June 1821, the house improvised in hospital to treat the wounded in the battlefield of Carabobo. Today, it is one of the most representative museums of the colonial era. There is also a small collection of religious art as well as rooms dedicated to local artists: painter Antonio Herrera Toro and sculptor Andrés Pérez Mujica.

Located in a well-preserved area, the museum has a blue balcony in 1790. It traces the history of the city and offers a wide panorama of pre-Columbian crafts. Also, colonial weapons and even a room dedicated to Bolívar (who commanded the port in 1812). At present, the Puerto Cabello Artists'association takes part in the House Lifting.

Overlooking the hacienda, the strategically located house allows to monitor the Maracay valley.

It was here that the Spanish established their headquarters in the war of Independence. On March 18, 1814, Captain Antonio Ricaute (statufié at the entrance, under Gómez, in 1911) will enter the powder reserve to detonate her. The officer will perish - and a thousand royalist soldiers - and will go to posterity for his act of bravery.

In the reconstituted house, the small museum of military history exhibits original pieces (time weapons, uniforms, letters, furniture). The gunners will note the presence of cannons, recovered from a boat in Puerto Cabello.