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The Caracas East Park (Parque del Este, now officially Parque Generalísimo Francisco de Miranda) was designed by Brazilian architect Roberto Burle Marx. It is a green paradise in the middle of the city, and it contains a small zoo. A replica of the ship led by Francisco de Miranda, the Leander, is in the southern
The building is located on the corner of Avenida Universidad and La Bolsa in Caracas. It can be reached via the metro at the Capitolio/El Silencio station. [3] The Iglesia de San Francisco (Church of San Francisco) is situated to the right and south of the building [4] and next to the palacio, having been constructed as an annex to the building when it was a convent.
The complex contains a gas station; it has three pumps and was selling petrol at no more than six US cents per gallon in 2015. [7]Parque Cristal is considered an important part of Caracas' financial sector, and a marker for how the 'center' of the city has progressively moved further geographically east over time.
San Francisco Church and the legendary San Francisco Kapok. Iglesia de San Francisco ("San Francisco church") is a church in Caracas, Venezuela. [1] Dedicated to Francis of Assisi, it was built in 1593 under the design of Antonio Ruiz Ullán as an annex of the Convent of San Francisco (now the Palacio de las Academias).
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Palacio Municipal de Caracas, in the historic center of Caracas. In 1673, Antonio Gonzáles de Acuña bought a number of buildings in the area around today's Plaza Mayor, adapting them to serve as a seminary. Known as the Colegio Seminario de Santa Rosa de Lima, it was the first seminary of the seventeenth century.
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.
East Park facilities in the late 1960s Patios in the north sector of the Park. The park is located on part of the land of the ancient hacienda San Jose. [4] [5] [6] (10 ° 29'38 "N – 66 ° 50'8" W) The hacienda still exists and is located between the existing park boundaries [7] and the distributor Santa Cecilia, in front of the Caracas Museum of Transport.