House of Sucre museum
 The
place keeps the personal objects and memories military from the
"Marshal of Ayacucho" and its wife. In 1977 the Ministry of Defense
recovered the house that belonged to Antonio Jose de Sucre and its
wife Mariana Carcelen. Since then she is open to the public like a
museum. The house of Sucre museum is divided in two plants and each
one keeps the dresses, the equipment, the furniture and the memories
military of the "Abel of America". The visits are guided. History
tells that Venezuelan general Antonio Jose de Sucre was an
enthusiastic one of Quito. As much that one married with Mariana
Carcelen, Marquise of Solanda, one of the inhabitants of Quito more
accumulated, with that formed a home in the house located in the
present streets Venezuela and Sucre.
The Annals of the Town hall indicate that for 1714
this house Perez de Ubilus belonged to Sebastián, who inherited their
son, Felipe Carcelén, father of Mariana. By then, the construction
included almost all a block. Years later, the 28 of April of 1828,
Sucre contracted marriage with Carcelén, in a peculiar act, because
the Marshal of Ayacucho celebrated for the date like President of
Bolivia, reason for which sent to general Vicente Aguirre like its
representative in the married ceremony. Aguirre, before this, received
the order to buy a house for residence of the new pair. And he
acquired the property of the Carcelén family. Immediately afterwards,
and by means of correspondence, it reviewed to Sucre the structure to
him of the building, and this one, thanks to its studies engineering
schoolboy, sent to planes for its rehabilitation and decoration.
Finally, Sucre arrived at its home the 20 from
September from same year. And gave to a truce to its life
single-breasted uniform jacket and policy there him, to dedicate
itself to form a family. Thus, after ten months her daughter was born
Teresa Sucre. The happiness with his lasted little. Then it had to let
the country to attend a congress in which it was wanted to avoid the
dissolution of the Great Colombia.
Without obtaining success in the management, the
Marshal undertook his return to Quito. But the 4 of June of 1830 a
bullet crossed its skull in the Colombian forests of Berruecos.
Mariana Carcelén later received the news of the deceases weeks. It
went to recover the body of his husband and it hid it in the Convent
of the Low Carmen. There it remained until 1904, when the government
of Eloy Alfaro decided to transfer the rest to a mausoleo in The
Cathedral.
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A year after the murder of Sucre, Marquise de
Solanda contracted new nuptials with general Isidoro Belly, and
together they procreated its Manuel son. To the death of the
Marquise, it becomes the owner of the house. |
Ramon Paz and Miño acquire time later, and at the
end of century XIX he finishes off it in 28 thousand pesos. During the first years of century XX, the
building was painted with an intense indigo, reason why was known it
like the ' Azul' House. There pharmacies, ironworks and warehouses
worked.
The Ministry of Defense bought the construction in 1970, it recovered
it from 1972 and it opened it for the visits of the public in 1977.
Address: Venezuela No. 573 and Sucre Quito
Pichincha Ecuador.
Open: Tuesday - friday from 08:00 to 16:45.
Saturday: from 08:30 to 13:00.
Telephone: 295 2860
Services: Tours. |
