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Title: Pics of Venezuela
Post by: alan_vzla on October 05, 2008, 07:02:46 PM
In this topic I'll show you pics of buildings, avenues, plaza, parks, etc of Venezuela, my natal country. This might be helpful to you if you are a BATter or just to know a new place

Today I will post photos of Caracas, the capital city, only; also, for today, most the photos will be of buildings, later I will post other photos of different places.

First some photos of the whole city

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Some skycrapers and emblematic buildings

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Plaza Venezuela, these buildings are the most emblematics of the city. A symbol of Caracas. The tower with the Pepsi logo over it is 121.9m high; the one with the coffee cup is 111.9m high and the one that says "POLAR" is 86.9m high.

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Another view of the buildings

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the Polyhedron, a multi functional complex used as a concert hall, exhibition and convention center, teather and more.

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The National Assembly building, former Congress.

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Centrum Tower

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Caracas stock exchange

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La Previsora building, it has a big clock on the top and it's recognized mostly by that. 117m high

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Movilnet Tower. 125m high

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Humboldt Tower

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The Sambil Mall, it's the biggest mall in South America

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El Universal Tower, HQ of El Universal newspaper

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Parque Cristal (Cristal Park) building.

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And to finish for today, Parque Central, one of the two twin tower (this one is the West tower) and some highrise residential buildings. Standing 225m high it was the tallest building in the American continent outside USA and Canada, today the tallest in South America only, exceded by only 5m by Torre Mayor in Mexico

I recomend you to visit this page to see a diagram of Caracas
Linkie (http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=637)
Title: Re: Pics of Venezuela
Post by: Nexis4Jersey on February 14, 2009, 10:09:27 PM
Beautiful Pictures of Caracas, please continue with this thread  &apls :thumbsup: