House #14

 

This house is 215 years old. It is located in Calle Real del Güarataro, which is one of the oldest and biggest ghettos in the city, and it is currently used as an elders retirement house. However, they live under high risk situations, and are forced to pay expensive fees to live in a bathroom, or behind a water storage tank. below, a photo from the decade of 1910, showing the railroad and the house, as one of the few erected buildings in the landscape.

 

The view from my window

 The bird is a carrion eating species locally known as "zamuro". He sits everyday in the same branch, about 4 pm. I call him Sammy.

Plaza las Tres Gracias

Plaza Las Tres Gracias is a public space in Caracas, Venezuela situated at San Pedro's Libertador Municipality.

The square is located on Paseo Los Ilustres, which is part of the Urban System of the Nationality, just opposite the university city campus of a major houses of higher education in this country, the Central University of Venezuela. The Plaza Las Tres Gracias was inaugurated in 1957 by the government of Marcos Perez Jimenez.

It was named after goddesses or Three Graces Thalia, Aglaia and Euphrosyne that according to Greek mythology represented the comedy, intelligence and joy and were daughters of Zeus and Eurynome. On October 17, 1999 the square is reopened after months of work, the statues were restored by the Italian sculptor Pietro Ceccaelli.

Around the square there is the subway station in Caracas, Ciudad Universitaria.