Sucre Historic Colonial and their surrounding

Sucre, capital of Bolivia, is a city that is 2860 m.s.n.m..Has a temperate climate the whole year. In general, the sky is almost always very blue and in winter one can enjoy a radiant sun.

It conserves good part of their colonial and republican buildings that are part of the history of the country; as the House of the Freedom, The Metropolitan Cathedral, the University San Francisco Xavier, the Supreme Court of Bolivia and the File and National Library.

In Sucre different indigenous ethnic groups that are part of the cultural diversity of the region converge. In the streets, fairs and rural towns of their environment, they can be noticed complex and colorings fabrics, language, music, religious beliefs, myths, expressions of a culture that stays almost intact. Sucre has also been the center of irradiation of the Hispanic culture, headquarters of the Real Audience of Charcas that embraced the whole country, the Argentinean North and Paraguay.

From city is, you can consent to natural and ecological places of great value: to few minutes one of the parks of the period meets bigger cretacy of the world with dinosaur tracks of impressive size and fidelity.

Sucre, white city of America, city of towers and colonial steeples that rise from their beautiful churches, been founded in 1540, it has been declared by the UNESCO: World Cultural Heritage Site to be the alive museum of what was the tremendous life of the Spanish colonial aristocracy

Sucre City Tour Colonial and Textile
3 hours
Their walk begins, in the denominated area Munaypata (Hill of the Love), understands the Square Anzures, place where you founds the city, mirador of the Recoleta of Colonial style where the visitor will be able to appreciate the 7 paws of Sucre; continuous with the Convent and Museum of the Recoleta, the corridors toward their restored Chapel take us to a beautiful choir from whose artistically figured seats in thick wood their songs like the cloistered monks of the time rise, important tourist patrimony that conserves in their interior the famous millennial cedar, the seat of the choir of Baroque style and an important collection of works of art.

In the Craft we find important development centers to textile art of the before Columbus time as it is that of ASUR (Anthropologists of the Andean South) that is in the big house of the Chaplaincy, in which collections of fabrics of the region are presented with recovered symbolic expressions and reproduced in the one modernized by the own residents of the regions of Jalckas and Tarabuco. A worthy work of being appreciated.
The Tour Includes:
Private Transport - Specialized Guide - Duration 3 hrs.
 
Sucre Historic City tour
3 hours
Journey that understands the most important places in those that events related with the process of the independence like the House of the Freedom were developed, in this historical enclosure you signs the declaration of the independence of Bolivia in 1825. The interior it is the same one that I harbor to the revolutionaries of the time, includes furniture and decorations. In their museum all the documents are conserved that attest the historical events of the independence, building of the tricentaria San Francisco Xavier, Churches: The metropolitan Cathedral, I Center Cultural during the colony and the Republic has been scenario of representations of European classic music and American. In their museum we find rich religious devices and clerical gear of the time, as well as figured wooden tables with inlays of fine shell and pearl, silent testimony of the wealth of the colonial church, Square and Arcade of San Francisco, the most important are the museums of the University of San Francisco Xavier with exhibitions of fabrics, archaeological devices, colonial painting and furniture of the time.
The Tour Includes:
Private Transport - Specialized Guide - Duration 3 hrs.
 
Sucre City Tour and their surroundings  
3 hours
The tour begins in the General Cemetery of Sucre where important characters of the history of the country lie amid beautiful gardens, has artistic stone mausoleums, marble with columns classic and beautiful epitaphs is a beautiful garden visited by national tourists and foreigners. Later on we move toward the castle of the princes of the Glorietta, Francisco Argandoña and Clotilde Urioste of Argandoña, the Castle dates of ends of the XIX century and principles of the XX century. Of eclectic architecture, it is to 7 kilometers of the city of Sucre on the highway to Potosí.
The Tour Includes:
Private Transport - Specialized Guide - Duration 3 hrs.
 
Sucre City Tour
3 hours
It visits Convent and Mirador of the Recoleta; dominating the city to the foot of the Hill Churuquella is this temple and convent of the Franciscans, the Choir carved in cedar it is nonpareil beauty, it presents a seat of Baroque style. The Convent of the Recoleta was founded in 1600 by Brother Francisco of Moral; I enter to the Museum Indigenous Téxtil (ASUR) it contemplates a series of textile: Ajsus, Chumpis, Ponchos and typical accessories besides information, it shows of two cultures: Tarabuco and Jal'qa:

The textile Tarabuco, gets the attention in the designs Tarabuco it is their clear segmentation in bands, defined among them by diverse types of elements, an effect of fundamentally provoked order for the symmetry and lastly the impression of a clear space. Their images remind us somehow to the paintings geroglíficas of the Egyptians that they related the life of their faraones. The design tarabuco opens up to a solar space of organized nature, inhabited by animals and well-known people full with activities and cultural objects. The abstract figures or icónicas are knitted in colored sheep bellón in alive colors what allows them to contrast clearly on the bottom always knitted in white cotton. This way not only the color but also the texture, the figures appear in relief, they make stand out each detail, allowing that the look captures them with easiness. It is as a to count through the fabric. Besides working the contrast, the designs Tarabuco also plays with the degradations of the color. The effect of strange rays of light that you come to accentuate the brightness that already had the color take place this way. The textile of the region of Tarabuco combine abstract elements with a figurative language that expresses the Kay Pacha" (this world of here), the social one and the landscape that the man dominates. Those figures are clearly recognizable as the farmers, the preparation of the Pucara, elaboration of the Chicha, the siembra, etc.

The fabrics Jalq'a, is characterized by the absolute prevalence of the figurative thing and an abstract almost total absence of geometry and of symmetries espejadas. On the contrary they express the chaos of a dark and plethoric genesis situation of strange animal species. In an atmosphere of tones voluntarily darkened and without contrasts, the called characters arise Khurus (Quechua) for the weavers, that is to say: Wild, untamable animals, and indomesticables. Some are clearly identified: Owls, Toads, Viscachas, etc.. but be for gratefulness or for the peculariedad of their you often line they are zoologically impossible, for ejm: Flames with three humps, as long as other characters are simply imaginary and chaotic: Symbiosis of different species, quadrupeds with hump in the head, animals with eyes in the line.... the human beings - represented very simple and schematically, when there are them - they see each other as lost in the forest of free, beautiful and surprising animals. The aesthetic Jalq'a gives form to continuous universe, without axes, chaotic, without effect of light, of difficult perception, the designs Jalq'a that today almost they use only a figurative language, speaks of the Uku Pacha" (The sacred world of the depths and of the remote places and of the lights diffuse town of animal extraordinary, non controllable animals for the human being). That is the version of the Anthropologists of ASUR.

It visits to the House of the Freedom, considered as the most important national historical monument in the country, in their main living room it was founded the records of the Independence of Bolivia August 6 1825. It exposes important historical objects and historical documents. Walk for main square.
The Tour Includes:
Private Transport - Specialized Guide - Admissions - Duration 3 hrs.

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