Among American cities, Caracas has a special importance as the birthplace of Simon Bolivar, the Independence Precursor Francisco de Miranda and the great scholar Andrés Bello. It contains the most colorful stories and anecdotes told by the best chroniclers and historians of Venezuela. This is his story. The conquest of the promised land … that could be heard far and countless mouths to the Province of Venezuela, right in the downtown area north of their coastline and mountains, there was a place where the fertility of land, the mild climate, the richness of its ravines and other unique excellence of his nature desires of conquest produced a native of the island of Margarita. This island’s natural pearls, Francisco Fajardo, mestizo, the son of India, decided to undertake adventure to the land that promised many natural resources. So for the year 1555 reached their shores accompanied by his people to conquer the land. After a hard work, he founded a herd which he called San Francisco in 1558 and later, the brave Juan Rodríguez Suárez founded on the same site, the Villa de San Francisco, a population that lasted only four months to be destroyed and burned by the natives of these lands. A bloody struggle emerges in the following years. We heard a rumor that there were rich gold mines in the region, and the voracity civilized European intruders soon compete with the indigenous ownership of its idyllic site. Gradually, the Indians who had warred for their land and their lives were returning to silence and oblivion. It was well and in this way could be found the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas in the same place in the valley of San Francisco. The foundation -1567 – “I take possession of this land in the name of God and the King” This was the words of Don Diego de Losada in founding the city of Caracas on July 25, 1567. It was a lovely place, happy and healthy climate. Next to him with him the Lieutenant Mayor of Avila and Andrea Gabriel Ledesma, who later died defending the city. The city was built in the narrowest part of the valley, at the crossroads of two paths: one that leads to the seaport La Guaira and take you to the gold mines of Los Teques.