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Portrait of Simón Bolívar in the house. The house on San Jacinto Street was completed in the 1640s. [4] Bolivar was born to Doña María de la Concepción Palacios y Blanco and Coronel Don Juan Vicente Bolívar y Ponte in the bedroom here on 24 July 1783, and was the fourth child of the aristocratic couple of the Creole family who had migrated from Spain 200 years earlier.
Diego de Losada by Antonio Herrera Toro. Before the city was founded in 1567, [10] the valley of Caracas was populated by indigenous peoples. Francisco Fajardo, the son of a Spanish captain and a Guaiqueri cacica, who came from Margarita, began establishing settlements in the area of La Guaira and the Caracas valley between 1555 and 1560.
The Caracas Cathedral [1] [2] or Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint Anne [3] is the seat of the Roman Catholic Metropolitan archdiocese of Caracas, located on the Plaza Bolívar in Caracas, Venezuela. Its chapel of the Holy Trinity is the burial site of the parents and wife of Simón Bolívar .
Cerro El Ávila (El Ávila mountain) (Indigenous name: Waraira Repano), is a mountain bordering Caracas. It rises next to Caracas, separating the city from the Caribbean Sea. The area's highest elevation is Pico Naiguatá, at 2,765 metres (9,072 ft) above sea level. It is considered the lungs of Caracas due to the amount of vegetation on the ...
Academia Venezolana Correspondiente de la Real Española established. [19] 1887 – Academia de Musica y Declamacion (music school) and Academia de Bellas Artes (art school) active. [22] 1889 – Academia Nacional de la Historia de Venezuela inaugurated. [19] 1891 – Population: 72,429. [3] 1894 – Valencia-Caracas railway begins operating. [23]
The Basilica of St. Teresa [1] (Spanish: Basílica de Santa Teresa) [2] It is one of the most important Catholic churches in Caracas, [3] capital of Venezuela. [4] It is the main center of veneration of the image of the Nazarene in San Pablo Easter, is located on the corner of La Palma and Santa Teresa in the city center in Santa Teresa Parish of Libertador Municipality.
According to the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence, a Caracas-based non-profit group widely regarded as the authority on the nation’s homicide rate, Caracas had a rate of 50.8 homicides per ...
Correo de Carmelitas (Carmelites Post Office) is a colonial building in Caracas, Venezuela, located in the historic center of the city on the corner of Avenida Urdaneta and Carmelitas street. It is located in the Cathedral Parish of the Libertador Bolivarian Municipality .