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Valencia

Bolivar Avenue
Bolivar Avenue

Valencia, Carabobo State capital is 150 km West of Caracas. It is an industrial booming city whose polite inhabitants and clean streets make it very special.


Capitol
Capitol

Inside yard
Inside yard

Downtown Valencia has beautiful old buildings that have been restored, like The Capitol, the local government headquarters.

Church opposite to Plaza Sucre
Church opposite to Plaza Sucre

Carabobo University. Law Faculty
Carabobo University. Law Faculty

Valencia Cathedral
Valencia Cathedral

Municipal Theatre
Municipal Theatre

Lamp at the Municipal Theatre
Lamp at the Municipal Theatre

Museums

The Celis' House
The Celis' House

Casa de los Celis
Casa de los Celis - Photo taken by Andres Leon

Valencia has many interesting museums where fine objects and documents of its historical past are exhibited. As an example La Casa Paez has on its walls paintings of several battles in which the famous Independence Hero Jose Antonio Paez participated. The Celis' House shows the typical architecture of colonial times. La Casa de La Estrella was first San Antonio de Padua Hospital, and then became Carabobo National College headquarters. Today, it is an interesting museum.


Visit Valencia´s museums.

Parks

There are several parks in the city. First comes Peñalver Park (Parque Peñalver) where the "valencianos" (people from Valencia) go for strolling, jogging, playing or simply relaxing. Inside the park there is a traffic school for the young ones.

Traffic school
Traffic school

Fernando Peñalver Park
Fernando Peñalver Park


Cerro Casupo (Casupo Hill)
Cerro Casupo (Casupo Hill)

Another place well attended by fitness lovers is Cerro Casupo (Casupo Hill), a nearby hill which is daily climbed by hundreds of people to exercise legs and lungs.


Two exciting places for young people are the Valencia Aquarium and Las Dunas Amusement Park.

Mini Pavona
Show of Toninas in the Valencia Aquarium - Photo taken by Gerardo Rodriguez

The
The "Plaza Monumental de Valencia" (Valencia's Bullring)

Valencia Aquarium (Acuario de Valencia) where trained "toninas" (small dolphins) charm young ones (and not so young too) with their show, and where a great variety of fishes are on exhibition."Las Dunas" Amusement Park offers attractions to people of all ages. Its water slide is very appealing to young ones.On the same premises there is a zoo that keeps a wide number of animals.

The "Plaza Monumental de Valencia" one of the largest bullrings in Latin America (second only to Mexico's ring) is not only a place for bullfights, but also for musical shows and many other public entertainments.


A half an hour driving west from Valencia, there is Parque Carabobo, site of "Carabobo Battle" historically important for being the one that definitely set Venezuela a free country.


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Caracas - With a population around 4 million, Caracas is the capital and more populated city in Venezuela. It is located close to the Coast (La Guaira Port), but at an altitude of 800 meters (2400 feet), which gives it an unique climate.

Carabobo - El estado Carabobo esta situado en la región centro-norte de Venezuela, siendo sus limites el mar Caribe por el norte; los estados Cojedes y Guárico por el sur; Aragua por el este y el estado Yaracuy por el oeste. Su nombre se lo da el sitio donde en 1821

Batalla de Carabobo - Acción bélica librada cerca de la ciudad de Valencia, el 24 de junio de 1821, entre el ejército realista a cargo del mariscal de campo Miguel de la Torre y el republicano comandado por el general en jefe Simón Bolívar. La victoria lograda por este último,

La Convención de Valencia - Asamblea instalada el 5 de julio de 1858 con el propósito de elaborar una nueva constitución luego del derrocamiento de José Tadeo Monagas. Su primer presidente fue Fermín Toro y estuvo integrada por una abrumadora mayoría del Partido Conservador entre qu

Luis José Cazorla - Sacerdote carabobeño. Diputado al Congreso de 1811 y firmante del Acta de la Independencia. Fueron sus padres Félix de Cazorla y Clara Páez de Vargas. En noviembre de 1810 fue electo diputado para representar a esa ciudad en el Congreso que debía reunirse en Caracas.

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