Tourism in Sucre city, Chuquisaca, Bolivia

Visit Sucre, capital of Chuquisaca. And enjoy the hotels and lodgings service, besides the varied gastronomy of the place.

The departament of Chuquisaca has 10 provinces and 118 cantons.

Chuquisaca has as capital Sucre city where the first freedom outcry of America was originated, which is also the official capital of the Bolivian Republic.

Sucre, is one of the oldest cities of South America. In Sucre we found the House of Liberty, where the Independence Act was signed and it was called Republic of Bolivar, in honor to their liberator Simon Bolivar, name that later it changed to Republic of Bolivia.

In Sucre was founded the third American University: Universidad Mayor de San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca and in its rooms the first revolutionary Americans were formed with their emerging ideas of "Freedom, Equality and Fraternity" issued at the French Revolution.

Tourist attractiveness

Churches

Visit Sucre, and to know its churches, its wealthy residences of the colonial days, its narrow and cobbled streets, its white facades, Sucre keeps the flavor of a historical, cultural, art and a luxurious past. Everything here is a remembrance of its glorious times here. It is a live museum of what the Aristocratic Spanish society was in the Audience of Charcas.

Nowadays it keeps almost untouched and it may very well be the most representative city in America of that epoch.

In Sucre city we can appreciate beautiful churches of different epoch, among the religious architectural buildings we can mention:
· The Sucre Cathedral, was a cultural center during the colony as well as the Republic. It has been the scenery for many European and American classical music presentations. In the museum of the Cathedral the manuscripts with this half-breed composition have remained.
· The San Felipe Nery Convent, built in the century XVII. It is the ostensible expression of the power of the Catholic Church in the flourishing American Society. From their balconies, in the middle of the colonial style tile hatched domes and its towers and belfries built with Potosi-origin silver ornaments. One can appreciate the imposing view of the city with the one hundred churches built one at every one block during the colony. The spectacle is even emphasized more with the roofs of the houses, all with red, ceramic tiles and its wood balconies sculpted, from where bunches of red flowers hang down over the pebbled narrow alleys.
· The Recoleta Monastery, founded in 1601 by the Franciscans. An environment of serenity and prayer in the middle of square yards surrounded by corridors roses and geraniums in blossom can be appreciated.
· Other interesting convents are those of Santa Teresa and Santa Clara. Both are exhibit halls with its own wares of everyday life of its feminine enclosed inhabitants.

Museums

The most important museums are:
· The House of Liberty, where the Independence Act was signed and it was called Republic of Bolivar.
· The Museum of the University with knitting exhibits, archeological artifacts, colonial painting and furniture of the epoch.

Sucre, located in the middle of indigenous communities, it is a city of great crowding of peasants from the surrounding, which fact makes it even more picturesque and attractive for the colorfulness of the costumes of the aborigine populations.

Cultural Events

In Sucre y Potosí, approximately 2,000 national and foreign artists gather every year, beginning on the second week of September, called the Art and Culture Festival. It lasts two weeks in which a full communications and integration of the different cultures with its diverse expression forms prevail. The seats become unusual sceneries of painting, music, literature, theater, movie, community expression and the partaking of the ethnical groups as well as the activities related with the contemporary art and popular culture, which allow finding a real brotherly relationship in the naturally existing diversity among the partaking nations.

Ecotourism attractiveness

Chuquisaca department has a series of minor mountain ranges among which we can come across tenths of mild valleys shed by streams an unpolluted rivers ideal for swimming and fishing.

Around Sucre we can find bathing spots such as Yotala, ñucchu, La Palma, Chahimayo and hot water springs such as Los Alamos, Huata and Talula. The countryside of Chuquisaca is agreeable and renovating for its quietness and beauty that it offers.
Monteagudo is one of the tour attraction centers the same as Tarabuco for its eco-tour attractions such the Milagro Mountain-range, Heredia Canyon, some rapids and the settling of Tupiguarani nationalities. If we go back to the past, the footprints of dinosaurs in Chuquisaca are evident traces that still mark their presence here.

Hotels in Sucre city