belong to a generation that knew no Caracas El Calvario. A primary site of our city for over 30 years was criminal territory, home to the underworld. But since April last year after a series of rehabilitation work, cleaning, security lighting and opens its famous steps and adds to our city, eager for space public, an excellent alternative to enjoy overlooking the valley. 
The road to Calvary is paved with stories, myths and legends in a life that reaches the 128 years since Antonio Guzmán Blanco, who made his long walks through the winding hill Sunday , decided to erect a park-style "French", where he could dominate what was then the city and its surroundings. It is well known for his fondness for architecture and French modes. Not a few works based on this particular style of architecture were what gave us the "Illustrious American." Some of them are National Pantheon , the Federal Legislative Palace the Teatro Municipal the Ca Masonic Temple Racas , the Basilica of Santa Teresa the Santa Capilla and the facades of the Palais des Here
d emias and Exhibition Centre , Face Archbishopric cas and the Church of San Francisco . 
Like any good leader in 1883 opened the new park with his name. So, this place where a strong tradition of Caracas called The Calvary "because there were going the fervent processions of Holy Week was renamed Paseo Guzmán Blanco. Pure Personalism. But the product name of egocentrism was not for long. In 1885, Joaquín Crespo after ascending to the presidency of the Republic, the new head of state will change its name to Paseo Independencia.
Egos egos come and go. Like statues, but that will come back later. Meanwhile I say that Calvary came through the careful and patient guide Derbys
López. A Venezuelan nothing egocentric who generously shared their stories on this and other areas of tourism and heritage value of our city and that motivated him to create an organization, nonprofit and principles of preservation, called Fundhea , History Foundation, Ecotourism and the Environment.
So Derbys, soft-spoken and gentle ways story pinpoints as the score of Caracas aware that we are witnessing this event via Facebook and on payment of 20 bolivars more than supportive, fraternal devalued our pockets. In his company and under the shade of a leafy tree we see a typical paisa je de Caracas: multicolor and I terog EnEO.
North stands the Palacio de Miraflores, a white mole neo late French Baroque. Behind, a set of buildings that speak of home emerged from the '70s and '80s. A self-winding side, The Metro, before entering the station Caño Amarillo. That , whose name comes so well because that is where the strength comes with light that reaches the depths of what was "great solution to Caracas" and has become a major problem. On both sides climb, hits hundreds of farms. M ost of this s covered their rustic brick facades with bright colors. U p na ancarta tells us that this action is colorful work of a program called Barrio Tricolor. grow trees and huts reached par and the monoliths of the best known architects of Venezuela, Carlos Raúl Villanueva, who were born with the name of 2 December, then, when p atria. Leader of the mark 50s. Ido Pérez Jiménez, the renamed democracy January 23. Crowning the top is the Military History Museum . Best known for being a hostel post coup attempt by military museology. I have not uploaded a single step from the famous steps of El Calvario much history h o ay to my feet.
Behind me is the Arco Federation. Erected by Juan Hurtado Manrique and Alejandro Chataing on behalf of President Joaquin Crespo and opened in 1895 in commemoration of the Federal war. Stridency my attention because I remembered the yellow white, with light touches of gray in cornices and sculpture and so I see all the photos on the net and so certify Heritage Case report. But this is not the first work of this government which calls into question the veracity color restoration.
is shocking that the concept of painting the "old" to make it look "new." Shame on the enamel gray concrete and there I see the patina covering the time left on windowsills and vases. I laugh imagining a gang Gallic-gallon of workers in hand and brush in hand, towards the balustrades of New Bridge ... The French people would cry again inflamed by the guillotine. But the sky is so blue, the breeze so fresh and so pleasing that the company almost forget the incompetence of these restaurateurs. The eye can see along the city and achieves remote areas where the brush was not gray. Then, the original railings from the green moss shines painted moisture and open pore of the rough stone. A marvel!
Crowning the famous staircase and not Columbus. The opening of El Calvario, which again changed its name to "Ezequiel Zamora Park" - paid a price, disappeared the statue of Genoese admiral since 1898 Macuro watched from the steps. In its place is Zamora, federal hero and patron of the XXI century socialism. So missed the second of Columbus because, remember, the first was getting off to a blows his pedestal in the walk of the same name, near the Plaza V enezuela.
Later the shaded Roads open, bushes surrounding the branch. Derbys stops to tell at that point the ride lovers divided. The lady, bobbin lace and the range on one side, the gentleman on the other. A romantic scheme celebrating the lovers encounter a few meters above. I wonder what would then the chaperone!
Top us "Parnassus," one of the four places available to ride. Was this, space preferred by writers, poets and painters late nineteenth and early twentieth
who gathered around the bust of the musician Pedro Elías Gutiérrez Venezuelan credited with gathering to talk and tropical-flavored French-style green. Another must-see sights of this tour is the Orthodox chapel "Our Lady of Lourdes " work of Hurtado Manrique, in the Gothic style and was built around 1885 by order of Joaquín Crespo. The statue of Guzman Blanco popularly known as "The manganzón" was demolished by a mob after he left the power. The statue of Bolivar, at the top of the park remains intact. 
As we went to deserved standing back to take the transportation that the mayor of Libertador specially conditioned. A sort of XXI century tram, open and red for leisurely retrace the path. Before we stopped to eat empanadas accompanied by pineapple games in Venezuela Cafè . A terrace overlooking the valley grateful South America is well worth a visit.
Finally I did. Chacao Municipality set the tone and continued Sucre. The growing need for public space, in these cases of young athletes exclusively for extreme-generate the design and subsequent construction of two separate spaces devoted exclusively to patineteros, skaters and other wheeled risk lovers. We won all! Win the shaman who drain their energy into space with appropriate facilities and security-resistant materials, earning children, youth and adults who should share the peace their strollers or interrupts their conversation while they were jumping up and win the seats, especially the new Plaza Miranda (next to Mall Millenum) because they were not designed for use as rude. 
The first extreme sports park was designed by architect Alessandro Famiglietti Siu and Arch Florbella Dias. In addition to the ramps and curves includes a climbing wall and all the necessary services for users: health, cafeteria and lockers. 
The Municipality of Sucre was the product of joint work between the office of ODA Architects and Youth Sucre. And it fills the void that occurred the level difference between the Plaza Miranda and the avenue of the same name. The web of colored rods that confines and the vertigo of speed of users make a playful kinetic level dusfrutan users of this important means of communication. The municipality of Sucre must complete the work in the building adjacent to the plaza and the park as it is being vandalized and bring order and sidewalk edges-definitely-solving motorcycle parking and access to the Millennium Mall Mall 
is pending that other councils in Caracas to join initiatives like this that give recreational Ares a growing community children and young people wishing to practice extreme sports and a city urban public space hungry. 
