Things to see and do Valencia

The largest Arenas in Latin America, after Mexico City, host fabulous bullfighting (for lovers of course!), in March and November in particular. It dates from about 1930.

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.

The house also houses the Athenaeum and the Michelena room where painting contests are occasionally held. His first owner, General llanero Páez (1790-1873), elected president in 1830, himself oversaw the execution of the frescoes of Castillo, which illustrate his battles and other mythological scenes, and accompanied by maxims of the kind: " It is a great evil not to do good "… Internationally recognized (he had found himself at the side of Grant during the American Independence Parade, as well as in the baptism of Napoleon III's son…), Páez died in exile in New York. His ashes are now at the Pantheon in Caracas.

Here you will find information on the Excursionist centre of Valencia, which meets on the first Thursday of every month at 20 pm.