VALENCIA, VENEZUELA a booming Industrial city with beautiful old buildings and interesting museums ...

Valencia, Carabobo State capital is 150 km West of Caracas. It is an industrial booming city whose polite inhabitants and clean streets make it very special. Downtown Valencia has beautiful old buildings that have been restored, like The Capitol, the local government headquarters.

Valencia has many interesting museums where fine objects and documents of its historical past are exhibited. As an example La Casa Paez has on its walls paintings of several battles in which the famous Independence Hero Jose Antonio Paez participated. The Celis' House shows the typical architecture of colonial times. La Casa de La Estrella was first San Antonio de Padua Hospital, and then became Carabobo National College headquarters. Today, it is an interesting museum.