The Birthplace of El Libertador Simón Bolívar was reopened and will be open to the public, after the interventions carried out according to the original engravings of this historical space, a reference of the capital city. In this regard, the president of the National History Center, Alexander Torres explained that “there are 16 spaces that have been intervened in a very professional way, in a high-quality manner, we are talking about the intervention from the kitchen to the laundry room, the walkway, roof, floor. It is a major work without precedent in the architectural history of the house”.
Regarding the kitchen, he explained “in the kitchen of the house where El Libertador was born, for a long time there was simply an engraving or projection of what it was like or how it was supposed to be, a house where African and Creole mestizo cuisine had a leading role.”
In this case, for the first time, the Venezuelan, American and world people “who want to come here can interact with a stove in the image and likeness of what colonial stoves were in Venezuela.”
It is an “Innovation here we have a stove, the pans, we have the configuration of the material of the time, strictly respecting the engraving that had been made on this important site that is the kitchen of the Casa Natal de El Libertador.”
For her part, the director of the Casa Natal, Yma Carhuarupay, indicated that the space will be open to the public from Wednesday to Sunday from 9 in the morning to 4 in the afternoon. “It is a space recovered for the reflection of our historical memory.”
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