Casa de la Libertad
Former Jesuit hall on Sucre's main square where Bolivian independence was declared in 1825.
The building began in the early seventeenth century as the chapel and great hall of the Jesuit college of San Francisco Xavier, on the main square of what was then Chuquisaca. After the expulsion of the Jesuits it passed to the university and later served as the meeting place for assemblies. On 6 August 1825 delegates of the provinces of Upper Peru gathered in the former chapel and signed the act creating the Republic of Bolivia, and the room has been known since as the Salón de la Independencia.
The house has been a public museum since the twentieth century and is administered by a national foundation. Eight rooms trace the colonial audiencia, the guerrilla war of the republiquetas, the signatories of 1825 and the presidency, with portraits, documents and the act of independence itself. Among the best known objects are the Macha flags, early banners linked to the Army of the North, and the gallery of Bolivian presidents. A library, a historical archive and a map collection serve researchers on the upper floor.
Highlights
- Salón de la Independencia, the former Jesuit chapel of 1621
- Original act creating the Republic of Bolivia, signed 1825
- The Macha flags, early banners of the Army of the North
- Gallery of Bolivian presidents and the Sala del Mariscal Sucre
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