2024

CATEDRAL DEL ESPIRITU SANTO D'EL VALLE

Churches cathedrals basilicas and chapels

In Baroque style, the stained glass windows tell us about the daily life scenes of the fishermen and people of the village. Celebrated on September 8 for a week, people say that, thanks to this virgin, Hurricane Ivan (8 September 2004) saved them to 10 km off the island. By leaving the right, a replica of Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes is visible in a mini cave which serves as a place of offerings. The only difference that, in this copy, the Virgin is left.

On the square next to the cathedral there is a taste of papelón con juice (sugar cane, lemon, ice) and the famous empanada empanada (molluscs).

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 El Valle
2024

CAPILLA DE PIEDRA DE JUAN FELIZ SÁNCHEZ

Churches cathedrals basilicas and chapels

To go, put your boots together, take food for 2 days and leave early. The stone chapel of the Virgin of Coromoto du Tisure is indeed 4-5 a. m. on foot. To access it, exit San Rafael towards Apartaderos (for example self-stop). Just a few kilometres away, go to La Mucuchaché bridge. On the right begins the splendid walk (you will pass the La Ventana pass at 4 200 m above sea level, before turning towards El Tisure) to the sanctuary dedicated to the Virgin which safeguards the artist during construction. The church, completed in 1954, houses a treasure of Andean art, sculptures of the calvary and the Holy Sepulchre. Let's say that Sánchez was born in 1900 and still created two other chapels, in 1964 and 1966.

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 San Rafael De Mucuchíes