El Pueblo

"...El Hatillo is a small town in extension, but great in its people who still conserve the warmth of the people of before, people who represent the past and the present. El Hatillo is great in history, in traditions and culture..."

El Hatillo is one of the few towns in Caracas, and like all venezuelan towns, has its main square called Plaza Bolívar accompanied by its respective statue of the Libertador Simón Bolívar surrounded by doves and children; a church, Santa Rosalía de Palermo. Furthermore, El Hatillo also counts with a second square, the Sucre square, famous for having in its center a Ceiba tree (for this reason, it is also well-known like Ceiba square) and the bust of the Illustrious Antonio Jose de Sucre. Typical in this town are painted with different colors (there are yellows, blue, red, green, purples, white, orange and all in his dark and clear version of). Nowadays most of this houses has been converted into stores of many kinds for such reason, the authors of this site also we called to El Hatillo "The Town of the Colors".

El Hatillo was founded on 1784 by Don Baltazar de Leon (see historical values) that, in spite of the constructions that have been made to its surroundings it continues being a town that refuses to die. Its people, those that were born and grew, up here still maintain its traditions and have transmitted memories from generation to generation.

"...That is El Hatillo...it is a little bit of Venezuela, that of the red roots, that that our poets told, that that we cannot forget, because to forget it it is to forget our history. El Hatillo extends to all the national territory.
Where can we find past a town that does not remember its streets and its people? Many years have past, the big concrete builds are constructed like challenging the progress, but still El Hatillo is there, like wanting to remind us, that we have a past, a history. " (extracted and translated of the paper "Sureste", 18/03/2001)

The people of El Hatillo are proud of their town. The Patron Saint Fiestas celebrations (Santa Rosal’a de Palermo) are remembered with nostalgia and were celebrated in the Plaza Bolívar and during those holidays, was very visited by the people of the town showing their best disguises. The "Toros coleados", that is a venezuelan cowboy sport where the bull is thrown by the cowboy riding a horse and grabbing its tail", was done in Comercio Street, its coffee (that was brought by donkey from the Urb. La Lagunita to sell in the main Square) and the pineapples that were brought from what is today is La Union, crossing the dirt streets of the town (the same ones that today are paved and treaded by the wheels of the "Street Car" every Saturdays and Sundays 2 to 7 o'clock in the afternoon and is completely free.

"To walk its streets and places, to enter its premises and to stick one's head by any small corner it is, really, to feel the past of our country."


Typical Houses of El Hatillo

In this page we want to emphasize the tourist historical and cultural values of El Hatillo.

In GD Solutions C.A. we feel proud of belonging to the "Hatillana community, our office is in Centro Empresarial Lagunita, and as frequent visitors since our parents brought us to stroll the on family weekends to skate, to see the doves of the Plaza Bolívar, to eat ice cream, to run, to play, to take photos and to enjoy.

We like El Hatillo and we hope that to you also like it, so...