The house has a sequence of courtyards surrounded by corridors and rooms. Period furniture and artifacts belonging to Bolívar can now be seen in the building. Other walls are whitewashed: the structure underneath is now made of brick, although it was probably made of adobe originally.Īt the time of Bolívar's birth, the home was opulently furnished with mahogany chests and tables, upholstered chairs, decorated mirrors damask curtains, gold cornices, and bright chandeliers. New materials were introduced for example the facade facing the street has been refaced in stone, which is atypical of colonial-era houses in Venezuela. The reconstruction is Spanish Colonial in character, but the aim of the restorers was to enhance the building, rather than adopt criteria of strict authenticity. It has wide corridors and courtyards and patios. The single-storey building occupies a relatively narrow plot, 23 meters wide and 60 meters deep. The building became a listed National Monument on 25 July 2002. It was inaugurated on 5 January 1921 on the anniversary of the Battle of Carabobo. Reconstruction of the house was ordered on October 28, 1916, with the purpose of preserving Venezuela's cultural heritage, and to honor its national hero, but it was not until 1920 when the house actually underwent reconstruction with added refinements. Guzmán Blanco was an admirer of Bolívar, and erected his equestrian statue in the Plaza Bolivar. The house remained in his family until 1876 when it was bought by President Antonio Guzmán Blanco. In 1806, the house was sold to a relation of Bolívar called Madriz. īolivar 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. The house on San Jacinto Street was completed in the 1640s. The birthplace and museum together present memorabilia connected with Bolivar and the Venezuelan War of Independence, along with weapons and furniture of that period. One of the adjacent buildings serves as a Bolivarian museum ( museo bolivariano). It is one of only a few houses from the colonial era which survive in central Caracas. Now a significant tourist attraction, the building is located in a little street off the Plaza San Jacinto, a block east of the Plaza Bolívar. The Birthplace of Simón Bolívar ( Spanish: Casa Natal del Libertador Simón Bolívar) is a seventeenth-century house in the Venezuelan capital city Caracas where the hero of Venezuelan and Latin American independence, Simón Bolívar, was born.
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