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Simón Bolívar was born in Caracas in the Captaincy General of Venezuela into a wealthy family of American-born Spaniards but lost both parents as a child. Bolívar was educated abroad and lived in Spain, as was common for men of upper-class families in his day.
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.
María Teresa Josefa Antonia Joaquina Rodríguez del Toro Alayza [a] (15 October 1781 – 22 January 1803), was the Spanish-born wife of Simón Bolívar.After only two years of engagement and eight months of marriage, she died after contracting yellow fever at 21 years of age.
Its chapel of the Holy Trinity is the burial site of the parents and wife of Simón Bolívar. The Nuestra Senora de Venezuela y Santa Ana is a square (cuadra) situated between the cathedral and the central plaza, which is walled on three sides, but open to the east where it faces the cathedral.
Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra at London's Royal Festival Hall. In 2013, El Sistema arranged for Dudamel to conduct the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra during the funeral of Hugo Chávez, which was attended by nearly two dozen heads of state. [10] [11]
Argentine caudillo Juan Manuel de Rosas, an example of a criollo of full-Spanish descent. The word criollo and its Portuguese cognate crioulo are believed by some scholars, including the eminent Mexican anthropologist Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán, to derive from the Spanish/Portuguese verb criar, meaning 'to breed' or 'to raise'; however, no evidence supports this derivation in early Spanish ...
Francisco Burdett O'Connor (12 June 1791 - 5 October 1871) was an officer in the Irish Legion of Simón Bolívar's army in Venezuela.He later became Chief of Staff to Antonio José de Sucre and Minister of War of Bolivia.
The Quinta de Bolivar. The gardens of the Quinta de Bolivar. The Quinta de Bolivar is a colonial house in Bogota, Colombia, that served as a residence to Simon Bolivar in the capital after the war of independence. It is now used as a museum dedicated to Bolivar's life and times. [1]