square de l'Amérique-Latine

The Square de l'Amérique-Latine features a central bronze statue of the Venezuelan liberator Simón Bolívar, standing atop a high pedestal that anchors the small garden. Created by the sculptor Emmanuel Frémiet, this statue was a gift from Venezuela to the city of Paris in nineteen thirty-one. It marks the long-standing diplomatic ties between France and various Latin American nations. Bolívar stares toward the nearby streets, a permanent reminder of the region's independence movements firmly planted in the middle of the seventeenth arrondissement.