The city keeps the first book of minutes of council and see the time in the oldest mechanical clock is running, dating from the nineteenth century
The city saved in the little room behind the kitchen of her older stuff, but continue using them and displaying them. Its inhabitants can still see the time on a clock-nineteenth century, work on the first building that exceeded ten levels and walk through the mall has older escalators.
The chronicler of Caracas, William Durand, memory instead prefers to call history and see with dismay that the unknown heirs. It is said that the capital retains very little of what was first, and it is true, but much has been recorded in books and photographs. Durand has a list of the oldest.
The ENAR square. In the foreground of Caracas, which conducted ENAR Diego in 1578, shows a central plaza, as related by Durand, was just a piece of land that was empty. It was not until 1753, during the reign of Francisco Ricardos, when given the finishing square.
was known as the Plaza Mayor, the cathedral and the market. In 1876 he placed the statue of the Liberator.
The Book of Caracas.
archive file in the Libertador municipality lies the oldest book of the city. It is the first volume of the proceedings of the Cabildo de Caracas dating from 1573. The reporter noted that if there are no other prior knowledge. The content was transcribed in 1943. So far there are 14 volumes backed up.
smoking. Fray Antonio González de Acuña in 1676 gives the first ban on smoking. The order restricts the use of "smoke snuff" in churches, vestries and around temples. Who went to Communion could not smoke from one and a half earlier.
Stairs for the day.
Zingg The passage, which still exists on the corner of Columbus and Camejo, was the first shopping center and also the first to have escalators. Durand said that the building dates from 1939, but was in 1953 when they installed the stairs: "They caused a stir in the children and parents had to take them to spend the afternoon in the passage to be ridden." The two steps are, but do not work.
The time of the nineteenth century.
The first mechanical clock arrived in Caracas in 1637, when the headquarters moved Archbishop of Coro, and was installed in the cathedral. In 1888 placed where it is now. Previously, the device reproduces the national anthem and "Alma Llanera."
The Bocardo compensation.
In 1919 the theater burned Caracas, was left at the corner of Veroes. Its owner, Joseph Bocardo, received 300,000 compensation Bs, the first of the city. The company that paid him was probably the Previsora.
The opening funeral.
The bodies of Gen. Guillermo Flores Bonifacio Goiticoa and member of the marching band of Caracas, were the first two to be buried in the Cementerio General del Sur, on 5 July 1876. Goiticoa's grave still exists.
higher towers. The Majestic Hotel was the tallest building in the city, with eight floors, the first half of the twentieth century. Firefighters used it to practice rescues from heights, but in 1942 was demolished to build the Towers of Silence.
are the oldest in the city of over 20 stories.
Source: Carlos José Faigil
