Paseo Los Próceres

The Paseo Los Próceres (translatable into English as Walkway of the Heroes) is a monument located in the Venezuelan city of Caracas, near Fort Tiuna and the Military Academy of the Bolivarian Army.

It was inaugurated in 1956 by President Marcos Pérez Jiménez,[1][2][3] calling it El Sistema de Nacionalidad (The System of Nationality) in honor of the independence struggles of Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.

In the monoliths the names of the Venezuelan heroes and the four battles that sealed the independence of the Bolivarian countries were carved: Ayacucho, Boyacá, Carabobo and Pichincha, also represented in high relief.

It was designed in the neoclassical style by Malaussena, presided over by the monument dedicated to national heroes, intended to occupy, in the urban geography of Caracas, the place of the Champs-Élysées in Paris.

A commemorative obelisk, mosaic paths, as well as the symmetrical design of the complex, offer the place a face of serenity, while bas-reliefs made in 1957 by sculptor Hugo Daini can be seen on one of the walls of the column.