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Sucre City Journal by Dragon Journals
Here’s a nice idea – record your trip to Sucre in a custom Sucre travel journal. Dragon Dragon have produced a range of city-specific travel journals, each beautifully printed with the city’s name on the cover. This lets your keep your travel diaries looking really neat and, if you’re visiting a few places, to create a […]
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National Archives and Library of Bolivia
Sucre is home to the National Archives and Library of Bolivia (or Archivo y Biblioteca Nacionales de Bolivia). The joint National Archive and National Library holds around 114,000 volumes and serves as Sucre’s main public library. The library and archive, established in 1836, holds many important documents dating from the time of “Audiencia de Charcas” colonial high […]
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Día de los Reyes (Kings’ Day) in Sucre
January 6th sees the celebration of Día de los Reyes (Kings’ Day) in Sucre. Kings’ day, also known as Epiphany, commemorates the presentation of gifts to Jesus by the 3 wise men (or Magi).
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Traveling Between Sucre and Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz de la Sierra is Bolivia’s most populous city (with almost as many people as La Paz and El Alto combined). It is a modern tropical city with a diverse population. It is just a short flight (or a long, grueling bus ride) from Sucre. Here’s the details of how to get from Santa […]
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Traveling Between Uyuni (Salt Flats) and Sucre
Sucre is within easy reach of one of the world’s most remarkable natural wonders, Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni. The Salar is the world’s largest salt flat located 3656 meters above sea level, and is the place to go to capture some of the most spectacular panoramas you’ll ever see. Salar de Uyuni is accessed from […]
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Traveling Between Potosi and Sucre
The mining town of Potosi sits at the base of Cerro Rico, a mountain “made of silver” which famously enriched the Spanish empire. Despite the flow of silver out of the town, the population remain poor and many work in very tough dangerous conditions in the mines, tracking down the remainder of the silver. It […]
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Espacio Cultural Origenes
One of Sucre’s must-see tourist attractions is Espacio Cultural Origenes’ folkloric show and dinner spectacular. The restaurant is set around a large stage where, almost every night of the week, they put on a colorful, high-energy dance show featuring traditional dances from Sucre and the rest of Bolivia.
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Tentaciones Trattoria Restaurant
Tentaciones Trattoria is a modern restaurant specializing in homemade pasta and Neapolitan-style pizzas. Set in an Italian-American style cafe setting (with a huge mural of Marlon Brando watching over you as you eat), Tentaciones offers a relaxed yet upscale environment for dinner and/or drinks.
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Inti Magazine
About Inti Magazine Inti is a bi-monthly magazine written, illustrated and sold in Sucre by some of the city’s poorest children. Money raised from sales of the magazine help pay for food, clothing and school supplies for the children. The magazine features articles on a wide range of topics, such as personal stories of the […]
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El Hostal de Su Merced
Hostal de su Merced is currently the TripAdvisor #1 top rated hotel in Sucre, with good reason. Merced is not actually a hostel as the name suggests, but a boutique hotel housed in a beautiful, converted 18th century building. The 5-floor building features open-air terraces and panoramic views of the city. Hostal de su Merced […]
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