Monument to Our Lady of Peace

  The Peace Monument (also called Our Lady of Peace) is a colossal commemorative sculpture of the Virgin Mary, entirely made of concrete, built 11 km southwest of the city of Trujillo, in Venezuela.4 With 46.72 meters height, 16 meters wide, 18 deep at the base and about 1200 tons, is the highest habitable sculpture of America, 5 being taller than the statue of Liberty in New York in the United States and the statue of Christ the Redeemer Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. It was the statue dedicated to the Virgin Mary highest in the world until the inauguration of the Monument of the Divina Pastora (patron saint of Lara state, also from Venezuela).

     The monument is located also at a height of 1,600 meters, 6 in the call Rock of the Virgin-where it is said that the virgin appeared in the year 1570, so at the height of the work itself, by the its enclave of mountains and tropical vegetation, provide a spectacular panoramic view of the region.7 it was inaugurated on December 21, 1983 by the then president of Venezuela Luis Herrera Campins, work designed by the sculptor Manuel de la Fuente (Cadiz, Spain 1932- Merida, Venezuela 2010) .8 it consists of five viewpoints, from where you can see, on a clear day, almost all of the state Trujillo, part of the Sierra Nevada de Mérida and the South Coast of Lake Maracaibo.

Location

     The statue is located between the Valley of the Cedars and the Zanjón de Los Muecas, about 565 km from Caracas. From Maracaibo, happening through the city of Valera, you get the monument to Peace by the highway Valera - Trujillo. If coming from the north, through Pampán and Pampanito, then fall into the above highway. If you come from Boconó, you can cut through the road that leaves Siquisay and extending to La Plazuela.