The capital of Venezuela celebrates 452 years of its founding in Summer 2021. The anniversary commemorates the Spanish conqueror Diego de Losada, who in 1567 ordered the building of the city, which he named Santiago de León de Caracas, an appellation that lasts today.
From the very choice of its name, Caracas has been a city of contradictions. When baptizing it, Losada revered with one stroke the indigenous people who inhabited the valley and Santiago “the Matamoros”, one of the greatest references of conquest and colonization in European culture.
