The Lactuario of Maracay was one of the first signs of this process, It wasn’t easy, since the improvement of the Creole race went through many ups and downs. Creole Bulls had learned, by natural selection, to live in the hot and harsh Plains of our land but the musiuas, despite the care they received where they were born and the changes that were made in the rustic cowboy to adapt them to the new desires of the Benemerito, died for the same reason that also devastated part of the people of that timelittle 862s pests and diseases: the rattlesnake. It is well known that the gift came from France, sent by the grandson of General Gomez, Marcos Santana, who was commissioned for the purchase of cattle in that country, and seeking to encourage the spirit of his grandfather, in livestock development in the region, sent him the figure of bronze with the inscription: General, this not dies you. This momentum led to find experts in animal health in Europe and the Southern Cone, and years later, open the schools of Veterinary Sciences of the Central University of Venezuela in Maracay. The reason for this, was not then taurine although for years he thought so, thanks to our French. By the mispronunciation of the name of the sculptor, del toro was attributed to Mariano Benlliure, a Spanish sculptor lover of bullfighting, and thanks to the lit bullfighting passion he always the city with an identical to the Seville Maestranza, was easy to extend the species. He has Don Alberto that the most knowledgeable of both to consider the work began to doubt already than the aesthetic of what was contained in the pedestal did not correspond with a toro de lidia until they saw the man following a detailed review: Bonheur.
Avendano admits that he knew nothing of this name until in London, after seeing a wonderful painter who portrays a horse market, he wanted to know the name of its author and told Marie Rosalie Bonheur, prominent French painter and sculptor, born in Bordeaux in 1922. The chronicler refer you then the authorship, though it was really his brother, Isidore, a renowned sculptor of animals in bronze, who He made it. Next to Tiger Tigers and bulls fill the imagination of the inhabitants of Maracay, which was the indigenous name for the feline. Brandes usually is spot on. Teams of basketball and baseball, two new statues and souvenir of having been the capital of Venezuela, gives the araguena capital, that air of peace and tranquility before the challenges of the future, he saw them at a time who declared it his official residence, finishing off the importance of the entity, crossroads..