A walk around Paseo Los Próceres

Hello, awesome Hivers!

In my walk today, which I actually did yesterday, I'm going to show you another area of Caracas. Yesterday, I was running errands with my son and I had to go near the Paseo Los Próceres. This is a promenade that is located next to a military area. The streets along the promenade have little traffic and are very safe. On weekends, they are usually closed to vehicular traffic and many people go there to walk, skate or ride bicycles.

Yesterday, I had to go to a shopping centre in that area and I thought that even though the day was very cloudy it was worth taking a short walk around the area to share it here on the Wednesday Walk.

So after parking the car, we went out onto the street and walked towards Paseo Los Próceres.

This whole area of the city dates back to the 50s when Venezuela lived under a military dictatorship and at that time many monumental works were made in the country.

The first thing we come across is a large obelisk with the figure of a man on horseback.

On the sides of the promenade, there are many areas with concrete benches. But instead of walking along the center of the promenade, we went to the pavement in front of one of the streets along it.

On that side, there is a wooded area with some areas for exercise, and there are also several metal imitations of war tanks. And my son wanted to look around.

On this sidewalk there are also three large murals depicting major periods in the history of the nation's rise. The time of the conquest and the discovery, the time of the colony and the independence.

Then we approached where the monument to the Próceres is located. Two monoliths with the figures of the independence heroes sculpted on their sides. We did not approach to photograph them because they are almost at the entrance of a military fort and there were several military doing exercises in the area so we preferred not to take close up pictures, but you can see the two monoliths in the following image.

Crossing the street on the other side of the promenade where we were walking is the entrance to the park El Laguito that I told you about some time ago.

From this point, we could see the promenade towards the obelisk, full of fountains and water screens, which are all dry and out of operation, by the way.

This is one of several fountains along the promenade, but none were in operation or had water.

On the other side of the street at this point can be seen the buildings of the Circulo Militar, a complex of buildings with multiple purposes, including a hotel for the military, a theater, and multipurpose rooms.

We continued walking back towards the Obelisk, taking some pictures of the promenade.

It is a pity that the day was so cloudy, there was not even a bit of blue sky.

As we were walking along we came across a plant with these beautiful flowers. According to Google Lens, they are called Pereskia, you can correct me if I'm wrong.

And of course, when I saw it, I had to take a picture for @dswigle and #alwaysaflower.

Behind the Obelisk, we take this short, tree-lined road.

That took us to Paseo Los Ilustres, a long promenade adjacent to Paseo Los Próceres, and in front of which is the shopping center where we had the car.

We didn't walk through it and left this walk for another day since we had things to do in the mall before returning home.