Monuments to visit Venezuela

It recalls the memory of the 10 American officers executed by royalist during the failure of the Miranda landing on 21 July 1806. As can be seen, the American flag included only 16 stars…

These ruins have been classified as historic monument since 1960. In 1647 Don Juan Sedeño Albornoz was relieved from his duties as field master in Barcelona del Cerro Santo (Barcelona has not yet been founded). It gives the ground of the present casa fuerte to the missionaries. 68 years later the Franciscans began building a convent. In December 1816, Simón Bolívar organizes the headquarters of his military operations. To do this it transforms the convent into a species of citadel, dotted with trenches where it increases holes in walls for cannons. This is how Le could withstand General Pascual Real when he took Barcelona on February 8, 1817 with his army of 4 500 men, and thus waiting for General Francisco Bermúdez's reinforcements for a historic victory. On the Bolívar Bridge, we still imagine the accolade of the two men and famous sentence of Simón Bolívar: " You are the liberator of the liberator! " On 5 April 1817, the Bloody Spanish Colonel D. Juán Aldama took a position at the strategic locations of the city pending heavy artillery. On the morning of 7 the "casa" falls. General Pedro María Freites heroically resists wounded arm, but must order the retirement, accompanied by Governor Francisco Esteban Ribas. Both men fall into the hands of enemies. Prisoners are taken to Caracas and executed on Plaza Mayor (present Plaza Bolívar) on the 17 th of the same month. The wicked royalist the massacre of 1 600 supporters (men, women and children!).

Every morning on the right of the village beach, one déballent of fruits and vegetables, some of the freshly caught fish, but also copies of CD and DVD. It is a pleasant stroll where a speciality of the region can be tasted in the pig offal: …

This well-restored colonial house houses maps, coats of arms, colonial furniture, the bed of which slept the liberator and even préhispaniques ceramics. It was also in these walls that Bolívar signed, on 15 June 1803, the Decree of War at Death, which ordered independence officers to kill royalist.

During the visit of the Bolívar family, the guide outlines a history of the Libertador family. Simón de Bolívar Ibarque (1532-1612) was born in Bolívar (the Basque word designating the mill of the mill) in the province of Vizcaya. He came to the service of the King in 1557 in Santo Domingo, where he married Doña Ana Hernández de Castro. In 1559, his son Simón said El Pozo. In 1589, Philippe II appointed him as Attorney General in Venezuela, where he was assigned close to 65 000 m ² of land. His first house was more south of the property. So we owe the current hacienda to Simón El Pozo; originally it had a straw roof.

In 1702, Lieutenant-General Don Juan de Bolívar y Villegas built the first refinery on its land, which - in the passage - reduces the manual work of the Indians. In 1750, the mill works through the water of Aragua and the Bolívar family employs more than 120 people.

In 1786, on the death of Colonel Don Juan Vicente Bolívar y Ponte, Libertador's father, copper mines, the hacienda and houses in Caracas returned to his older brother. Upon his death at sea, off the coast of Bermuda, Simón will administer the hacienda and other family property. Some historians say that the Libertador was born in the family hacienda. His birth extract indicates that he was born in Caracas, but no one knows whether it was the city or state of Caracas which was then part of San Matéo.

Simón spends much of his youth in this cocoa and cane hacienda, with his tutor. He then goes to Caracas. He will return only to his wedding in August 1802 with Maria Teresa Rodriguez of Toro.

The love story will not last long, since his fresh wife dies 8 months later from yellow fever.

Property is confiscated during the war (as of 1814). Finally, in 1827, Bolívar ordered rehabilitation of the roof burned during the explosion… (see «Museum of Military History»). It will shortly be bought by the Gumersindo family and then by Gómez in 1924, which will make it a museum.

That said, if the story is interesting, the visit should not give you an indelible memory. Two museums are now in the hacienda:

The market can be served in an active and relaxed atmosphere.

Farmers go down to sell their production: you can discover still unknown fruits in Europe, with strange flavours, which you will even be offered juice… so taste the Jugo de Lolo and you will tell me some new ones! Theobaldo, a young guide, independent, self-fulfilling and self-confident, passes every morning through church square at 8 a. m. sharp. If you are there, it will take you to a coffee hacienda, a waterfall of 100 m or Cerro Negro which culminates at 2 600 m. Not expensive and nice, but discuss the price before.

This statue in the style of the 1970 s and signed by the architect Manuel de la Fuente, measuring 46,72 m high and weighs 1 200 tons. From the size of the statue of freedom New York, one can see by far that which reflects the sincere devotion of the Venezuelans. You can enter the statue to admire the landscape. We climb up to the neck, and then you reach your eyes on a scale. When the time is clear, it is possible to see the Sierra Nevada, and to the lake of Maracaibo.

Its thousands of books gradually move into new premises, on the square of the Pantheon.