Trips to Bolivia

TRIPS TO BOLIVIA: SUCRE

When they arrived the Spaniards to Sucre were with a region very populated that counted on good agricultural resources and was near the rich mines of Porco. For that reason his first denomination was the Silver.

Shortly after, with the height of Potosí, the Silver will become agricultural supplier consequently and, in one of the richest large cities of America.

During the independentista war, the city had the honor of being soothes of the Constituent Assembly where the new country of Bolivia name was created; the first Constitution in 1825 was written up; and the name of the city, that since then was called Sucre, in honor changed to the marshal who carried out all this process.

In 1889 the civil war transfers the capital to La Paz. Even so, the high Creole aristocracy is going to maintain its privileged rate of life, that next to the Church, will live comfortably until 1952, date of the National Revolution, that will end the esclavistas relations.

The city of Sucre has been and is center of creation and artistic diffusion; thus, the city, although small in size, has a powerful influence in the rest of the country. The monuments and existing works of art in Sucre are of great quality but, at the same time, within the peculiar tone of own moderation of the city and its people.

The concentration of important institutions, like the Archbishopric of the Silver, today of Chuquisaca; the San Francisco University Xavier de Chuquisaca; the seat of the Pool Hearing, first, and after the Government of the Republic; and the presence of the Supreme Court of Justice, has attracted numerous influential and cultured personalities that have been defining the profile of the city, that today shows the qualification of Constitutional Capital of Bolivia.

The majority of the Sucre monuments, frequently defined like “colonial” city, has of those cultural monks and. It has been declared, recently, “Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity”, by UNESCO.