2024

MAUSOLEO DE JUAN VINCENTE GOMEZ

Cemetery to visit

The monument, with New Moorish style, hosts the body of this dictator, an admirer so convinced of Libertador that he died, like him, on 17 December, but a century and some later.

He rests with his family. Man distinguished himself by his despotism and power without sharing, imprisoning and methodically torturing all opponents. Some see him as one of the bloodiest Dictators in Latin America. The arc of triumph is quite grandiose, probably because he ordered himself the construction of the book dedicated to his own person in 1919, almost sixteen years before his death.

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2024

ARATUR

Tourist office

Aratur also has a yacht to tour the Caribbean: day out on the beaches of Henri Pittier National Park, La. It is also possible to schedule trips with them, for example to the Roques. Prices are quite competitive. Example: visit of Mochima and Margarita from 2 300 Bs. F per person every three days understood; for the combination Los Roques-Margarita, count from 5 400 Bs. F.

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2024

CODAZZI PARK

Parks and gardens

The smallest park in Venezuela (43 ha only) bears the name of the famous geographer Augustín Codazzi and houses samanes trees as well as specimens of the vegetation of the valley. We can go on a picnic.

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2024

MAUSOLEO DE SANTA MARIA DE SAN JOSÉ

Memorial to visit

It is the mausoleum of the first Venezuelan saint. The nuns were beatified by John Paul II in 1995. Dead on 2 April 1967, his home house is in the village of Choroni. One can offer a moment of contemplation in front of his body, which, like that of Sainte Thérèse at Lisieux, remained intact.

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