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Timeline Building Height Floors City 1674–1875: Caracas Cathedral (Bell Tower): 34.0 m / 42.0 m (Before the earthquake of 1812) 1: Caracas: 1875–1945: National Pantheon of Venezuela
Modern high-rise buildings have overpowered much of the colonial flavor of Caracas' founding neighbourhood. Plaza Venezuela is the geographic center of Caracas. It is a large urban plaza at the entrance of the Central University of Venezuela. Kinetic artists have displayed their works there, including Carlos Cruz-Diez, Alejandro Otero and Jesus ...
The present building is the result of the work undertaken by the Venezuelan architect Alejandro Chataing in 1906. The west wing of the building, the Capilla de Santa Rosa de Lima (Santa Rosa chapel), the chapel where Venezuela's independence was declared in 1811, has been fully restored and furnished with authentic period pieces.
In the Avenida Bolívar public area are the Children's Museum of Caracas, the Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex, the Hotel Venetur Alba Caracas, the National Art Gallery, the Parque Central Complex, the Sector El Conde, the Bellas Artes locale, the La Hoyada Market, the Centro Simón Bolívar Towers and the Palacio de Justicia de Caracas and its ...
Founded in 1527 by the Spanish as one of the first colonial settlements in the region, the city of Coro and its port, La Vela, have preserved their urban layout and numerous historical buildings. The buildings are made in the bahareque technique (using interwoven bamboo sticks or reeds, covered by mud), adobe, and rammed earth.
The Centro Simón Bolívar Towers TCSB also known as the Towers of Silence is a building with a pair of 32-story towers, each measuring 103 meters in height, in El Silencio district, Caracas, Venezuela. Built during the time of the presidency of Marcos Pérez Jiménez, the TCSB was opened to the public on December 6, 1954. [1] [2]
Lists of religious buildings and structures in Venezuela (1 P) Pages in category "Lists of buildings and structures in Venezuela" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
The building is painted bright white and has a gilded oval-shaped dome crowning an elliptically shaped room (known as the Oval Room). The dome's ceiling has a painting by Martín Tovar y Tovar which vividly depicts the crucial Battle of Carabobo in the Venezuelan War of Independence against Spanish colonial rule.