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Museo de Béisbol
This museum in the popular Centro Comercial Sambil, 5km north of the city, is totally devoted to baseball fanaticism. It even has a pitching machine under the distinctive half-dome baseball roof of the shopping mall. Buses to Sambil run from the town center (BsF1.50); taxis here ar
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Parque Las Heroínas
This recently remodeled plaza, in front of the cable-car station in the heart of Mérida, is a popular local place to hang out in the shade of the trees and in front of the impressive fountains. It really comes to life at night when its full of young revelers, musical performers and
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Casa del Congreso de Angostura
The brash pink Casa del Congreso de Angostura dominates the western side of the plaza. Built in the 1770s, in 1819 it was home to lengthy debates by the Angostura Congress. You can still sense the air of those days while strolling about the formal rooms, wide corridors and elegant
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Ateneo del Táchira
The oldest building in Plaza Bolívar is the stylish Ateneo del Táchira , built in 1907 as the Sociedad Salón de Lectura. Today it hosts a cultural center with its own art gallery and an auditorium staging theater performances and screening art-house movies. Stop inside to see what’
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Iglesia de San José de Tucupita
The oldest building in town is the charmingly rickety-looking Iglesia de San José de Tucupita , the Capuchin mission church constructed in 1930. It functioned as a parish church until the huge and rather charmless Catedral de la Divina Pastora was completed in 1982, after almost 30
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Salinas de Araya
This sprawling salt-extraction site is run by Sacosal and includes three areas: the salinas naturales (natural salt lagoon; referred to as Unidad 1), salinas artificiales (artificial salt pans; Unidad 2) and the main complex near the pier (not open to the public), where salt is sor
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Catedral de Mérida
Work on this monumental cathedral began in 1800, based on the plans of the 17th-century cathedral of Toledo in Spain, but it wasn’t completed until 1958, and probably only then because things were sped up to meet the 400th anniversary of the city’s founding. Check out the gargoyle
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Airplane of Jimmie Angel
Standing in front of the airport terminal is the restored airplane of gold-seeker Jimmie Angel, who landed atop what was eventually named Salto Ángel (Angel Falls) in 1937, and couldnt take off again. The plane he made his historic journey in was removed from the mountaintop by the
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Museo de Arte Alberto Henríquez
Situated diagonally opposite the Museo de Arte de Coro, in a great historic mansion, the Museo de Arte Alberto Henríquez has modern art – shows change regularly but are always worth a visit. At the back of the mansion is the first synagogue in Venezuela, (founded 1853) though the p
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Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Francisco Narváez
Porlamar’s only real tourist sight, very enjoyable and in a large, modern building in the town center. On the ground floor is an interesting collection of sculptures and paintings by the Margarita-born artist Francisco Narváez (1905–82) and some of his contemporaries, while the upp
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Museo Campesino Tiscachic
The small Museo Campesino Tiscachic has quite an interesting exhibition of crafts – mostly woodcarving, pottery and basketry – fashioned by local artisans. It’s in the Centro de Servicios Campesinos Tiscachic, 150m northeast of town past the bridge and off the road to Valera. The c
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Castillo de San Antonio de la Eminencia
The grandest and best-restored colonial structure in town is the coral-rock Castillo de San Antonio de la Eminencia , with good views over the city and coastline from a hill just southeast of the center. Constructed in 1659 on a four-pointed-star plan, it has survived repeated pira
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Museo Urdaneta
A short walk north from the center is this museum , which is dedicated to Maracaibo-born General Rafael Urdaneta, the city’s greatest independence hero. Built on the site of Urdaneta’s birth, it features a collection of objects, documents, paintings and other memorabilia related to
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Museo de Arte Colonial y Costumbrista San Francisco de Asís
This museum has a bizarre, 30,000-piece private collection of old objects, including kerosene lamps, hospital beds, jukeboxes, crucifixes, chamber pots, fire extinguishers, wedding dresses, surgical instruments, turtle shells – you name it. It’s stunning. The friendly attendants ha
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Fortín Solano
On the 100m-high hill to the south of the city sits this fort built in the 1760s to secure commercial operations. Reputedly the last colonial fort built in Venezuela, it commands excellent views of the city and the harbor. The road to the fort branches off from the road to San Este
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Museo de la Ciudad de Guanare
Opposite the church in Guanare is a splendid two-story colonial mansion, one of the few buildings remaining from the Spanish period. It’s now home to the museum, and features exhibits related to the town’s history. Don’t miss visiting the rooms on the upper floor, which shelter a s
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Cementerio Indígena de Quíbor
This is a pre-Hispanic cemetery which was accidentally discovered in 1965. Numerous tombs and more than 26,000 pottery pieces have been excavated from what is thought to be a burial ground for tribal elders of an aboriginal community that lived here around the 3rd century AD. It is
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Fortín de la Galera
Crowning the hill just north of town is the Fortín de la Galera. These days little remains of the colonial fort (destroyed by the Spanish royalist army in 1817) other than some stone walls with a terrace and a refreshment stand, but it sees a steady trail of couples arriving in the
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Cruz de San Clemente
In the barred pavilion on the plaza between the two churches, Iglesia de San Francisco and Iglesia de San Clemente, is the Cruz de San Clemente . This is said to be the cross used in the first mass celebrated after the town’s foundation. It’s made from the wood of the cují tree, a
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Museo de Arte Colonial
The Museum of Colonial Art is considered one of the finest museums of its kind in Latin America. Housed in an elegant country mansion known as Quinta de Anauco , it’s laid out around a charming patio and enclosed by lush, shady gardens. A ball was staged here in honor of Simón Bolí
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