The translation is the House of Liberty. This house is the equivalent to Indepence Hall in Philadelphia, which we happened to visit early this year. This beautiful old building was a jesuit mision built in 1592. Later it housed one of the oldest universities in the Americas, la Universidad de San Francisco Xavier. The house was also one of the sites of the first cry of liberty. But most of all it's impotant because Bolivia's Declaration of Independence was signed here!
The Hall, where the declaration was signed, was a chapel with beautiful carved furniture and the pictures of Bolivar, Sucre, and Ballivian. Other exhibits include pictures and personal artifacts of Bolivia's presidents, some pictures of the founding fathers and heroes.
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