Coro Travel Guide

 MalenaN Says:  In another colonial house, very near Coro Art Museum is another museum, Museo de Arte Alberto Enrique (UNEFM), with temporary exhibitions of modern art.In the back of the house you can see the first synagogue in Venezuela. It was founded in 1853, but the furniture is not... 

 MalenaN Says:  Museo de Arte de Coro is situated in a yellow, two story colonial mansion from the 18th century. The house is called Balcón de Bolivar (Simón Bolívar) stayed in this house on the 23rd of December 1826).The Museum is a branch of the Caracas Museo de Arte Contemporáneo. It has... 

 MalenaN Says:  Next to Iglesia de San Francisco, in an old monastery from the 17th century, is the Museo Dioesano Lucas Guillermo Castillo. It is a museum with a big collection of religious art, madonnas carved in wood , paintings and silver and gold objects. The guided tour is in Spanish... 

 MalenaN Says:  The cathedral is situated by Plaza Bolivar and is one of the oldest churches in America still standing. The construction of the cathedral begun in 1583, but it was not finished until 50 years later.The cathedral is painted in white on the outside and also the inside. It is... 

 MalenaN Says:  Los Médanos is a national park with sand dunes northeast of Coro. They are covering an area of 80 sq km and you can be here seeing nothing but than sand. Some of the dunes are 30 metres and you can get the impression you are in the middle of a big desert. During the day it... 

 MalenaN Says:  This house was built in 1764 by Don José Garcés de la Colina, and at that time the iron bars across the windows were brought from Sevilla in Spain. The plastered white and yellow doorway is 8m high and is in contrast with the pink/red walls. In the private collection there... 

 MalenaN Says:  The museum of ceramics is housed in a very nice house. It is a white house with blue balconies and tilled roof built in the 18th century. The house is called Casa de los Arcaya. So if you are not interested in pottery you can visit just to see the house.There is both antique... 

 MalenaN Says:  One day in Coro I went to a pastry to buy fresh bread in the morning to bring back to the posada. It turned out I was too early and I had to do with yesterdays bread (and most of it was sweet). So the following day I went to Fonda Tuística Sabor Latino, a café on Paseo La... 

 MalenaN Says:  In the yellow house at the corner of Calle 37 Zamora and Calle 66 Federación there is a nice restaurant. In the room before the restaurant there was a photo exhibition when I visited. In the restaurant there is also a bar and they play good background music. Lasagne, water,... 

 MalenaN Says:  As I was going to change transport several times and cross the border I left the posada in Coro already at 6am. I found a taxi without walking too far, it was 5000 pesos to the bus terminal. At the terminal I decided to take a por puesto (shared taxi) to Maracaibo instead of... 

 MalenaN Says:  Where ever you go inside Coro you pay the same price with the taxi. In July 2007 it was 5000 Bs. From the bus terminal to the Posada and from the city centre to Los Medanos it is also 5000 Bs. After 21 in the night the price is 6000 Bs. This a taxi driver told me. He also... 

 Josch37 Says:  Los Medanos is a small park which gives access to the only sand dunes in Venezuela. Take a bus to the monument at the entrace of the park and walk (10 min).