The Historical Center and Plaza Bolivar Hot

Over the centuries, pirates, disease and earthquakes prevented the development of Caracas. Then came the wars of independence, and just when Spanish rule ended in 1812, Caracas suffered the worst earthquake in its history with 10,000 deaths and around the city in ruins.
This is not surprising that there are not many colonial buildings and the historic center of Caracas is rather small place and today we have wide avenues, huge shopping malls and high rise buildings built and better and pretty tough.
What remains of the old colonial center is a neat grid of streets around the Plaza Bolivar. Here we find a charming, quiet and Plaza Bolívar family full of children, balloons and pigeons with style Venezuelan Bolivar statue mounted on his steed surround the symbols of power: North Government House, west to the Foreign Ministry and Southern Municipal Council with the Cathedral to the east.
Just one block south on Capitol Hill have completely white with its golden dome, which is the heart of the colorful Venezuelan politics, and only one block north of the Santa Capilla find an example of neo-Gothic church in Venezuela. You can look in one hour of walking a bit.
That just leaves a few blocks up north to visit the National Cemetery, where lie the bodies of the 138 founding fathers of Venezuela. The bronze tomb of Bolivar takes the place of honor in the choir, and two empty graves await the rest of the Heroes of Independence Francisco de Miranda and Jose Antonio de Sucre.