In 1996, CAF was the venue for important cultural expressions

The interesting photographic exhibition Cultural heritage, threshold of integration will be open to the public in the CAF Gallery until December 15. The exhibition collects the impressions of architects and photographers Graziano Gasparini and Ramón Paolini on the landscape and architecture of the Andean region in its different geographical contrasts.

The show is sponsored by CAF, which this year has organized important activities to promote and disseminate culture and art at regional and international level.

In  June, the CAF Gallery exhibited the travelling show of Spanish painting From San Fernando, six realist painters, with the works of Fernando Rodrigo, Pedro Cano, Jesús Ibáñez, Roberto González Fernández, Ángel Busca and Clara Gangutia, which was open to the public until July.

On November 7 last, the architect Ramón Paolini gave a talk on The Fortified Caribbean, in which he illustrated the great fortifications built in the Caribbean cities as protection from the attacks of pirates and filibusters, which stalked the American coasts in the colonial era.

Later, on November 21, Graziano Gasparini gave a talk on the Origin of the cities in Hispanic America and the Laws of the Indies emphasizing the preeminence of the regular checkerboard layout in the architectural design of American cities, already present in the Inca constructions of the pre-Hispanic era.

On December 2, the CAF Antonio José de Sucre Auditorium was the venue for the concert of the Caracas Academic Octet. The famous group presented classical and semi-classical works of Rossellini, Mozart, Verdi, Dvorak, Brahms and a Latin American repertoire, which included unforgettable pieces by Augusto Brandt, Vinicio Mezas, Horacio Salgan, Aldemaro Romero, Carlos Gardel, Astor Piazzola and Moisés Moleiro.

CAF is a multilateral financial institution which works for the sustainable development of its member countries, and for the integration of Latin America and the Caribbean. It partners also include Brazil, Chile, Mexico Trinidad and Tobago.

The Corporation is committed to supporting the identification of the historical, cultural and economic ties which unite these countries in an effort to strengthen the union of peoples and project it with solidarity and force into the future.