Editing Sucre (section)

==Architecture==
The city of Sucre contains many old and classic buildings.

===The House of Freedom ===
[[File:Freedomhouse.jpg|thumb|200px|View of House of Freedom from the main square]]
[[File:The 25th of May Plaza.jpg|thumb|200x200px|May 25th square]]
Built in 1621, it is perhaps the most important building of the nation. The republic was founded in this building by [[Simón Bolivar|Simón Bolívar]] who wrote the Bolivian Constitution.<br />
The "Salón de la Independencia" houses the Bolivian Declaration of Independence.

===National Library===
Built on the same year of the foundation of the Republic, it is the first and the most important historical, bibliographical and documentation center of the country. The National Library has documents that date from 16th century.<ref>Archivo y Biblioteca Nacionales de Bolivia, Anuario de Estudios Bolivianos, Archivisticos y Bibliograficos. No.14 - 2008, p.301ff</ref>

===Metropolitan Cathedral===
{{main|Cathedral of Sucre}}
Built between 1559 and 1712, the cathedral has the "Museo Catedraliceo" which is the first and most important religious museum of the country. The "Pinacoteca" has a vast collection of paintings by Colonial and Republican masters and also by Europeans such as Bitti, Fourchaudt and Van Dyck. The Cathedral contains a vast amount of jewelry made of gold, silver and gemstones.

===Archbishop's Palace===
Built in 1609, was an important religious and historic institution during colonial times.

=== Departmental Autonomous Government of Chuquisaca===
[[File:20170806 Bolivia 1293 crop Sucre sRGB (24128466548).jpg|thumb|200px|View of the Chuquisaca Governorship from the main square]]

One of the best buildings of republican architecture, this was completed in 1896. It was the first Palace of Government of Bolivia but when the government was moved to La Paz it became the Chuquisaca Governorship Palace.

===Supreme Court of Justice===
On July 16, 1827, the [[Supreme Court of Bolivia|Supreme Court of the Nation]] was established. Its first president was Dr. Manuel Maria Urcullo. Others prominent in its history include Dr. Pantaleon Dalence, who was twice president of the Supreme Court and through his qualities became known as the 'Father of Bolivian Justice'. This institution was installed in several places before moving to its current building. It was designed in the neoclassical style under the canons of French academicism and was inaugurated on May 25, 1945.

===General Cemetery===
Some of the areas date from the late nineteenth century. Ornate mausoleums, tombs and gardens with magnificent old trees populate the space that is home to the graves of important people in the arts, sciences and the history both of Bolivia and of Latin America.

===Churches and Convents===
[[File:Casi de noche en la catedral.jpg|thumb|Plaza Principal, Main Square, Sucre]]
[[File:Catedral_-_Sucre.jpg|thumb|Sucre Cathedral]]
*San Felipe Nery
*San Francisco
*La Recoleta
*Santa Teresa
*Santa Clara
*Santo Domingo
*San Lazaro (The oldest church in the country and ex-Cathedral of Sucre)
*San Sebastian
*Iglesia de la Merced
*San Agustín
*Santa Mónica
*Santa Barbara
*San Miguel

===Chapels===
*Loreto's Chapel
*Virgen de Guadalupe

===Transportation===
The city is served by [[Alcantarí Airport]] with multiple domestic destinations on three commercial airlines.