Venezuela's capital and largest city, when the conquistador Diego de Losada founded Caracas on July 25, 1567, had found an ideal place: the town is located in a narrow valley breezes, sunny days and warm, but never too hot - all year round. Today, Caracas is a modern city with a new and growing infrastructure, some very spectacular. It is a dazzling and brilliant city. Caracas increases as the high capital of South America, made by architects in the city with love. With the exception of the old streets in the neighborhood of La Pastora and the Plaza Bolivar, most of the old colonial houses are still there.

Caracas was an important Spanish colonial bureaucrats and Venezuela have Cacao before the oil boom. Caracas (as they call the inhabitants of the city) to worship the moderu, its oil wealth gives them enough money to follow the philosophy of buying new instead of repairing or restoring the Caracas old.Colonial is hard to imagine, looking at the Caracas today. Guaire The river is still there, but now dark, but you'd have to strip the road, flattening the glass skyscrapers and insert the fields and palm trees before coming to imagine the original city.

If the task requires a lot of imagination, they can always go downtown to the City Council, City Hall, and take a look at the painting of Our Lady of Caracas (Our Lady of Caracas) hanging. Much of the material is occupied by the virginal white dress, but hidden in the bottom center of the painting is the first city known as Santiago de León de Caracas, as it was in the 18th century: nothing but a set of adobe houses with red tile roofs and patios. While Lima was filled with mansions for the Spanish viceroys, Quito graced with more than 80 colonial churches and Potosi enjoyed the richness of its mines to see sil, Caracas was a small office where people had a good time with a lot better entertainment today than ever. Caracas offers night life in South America, and the best climate in the world ....

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