View of the Three Graces, in the background the University City of Caracas.
Las Tres Gracias square is a public space in Caracas, Venezuela located in the San Pedro parish of the Libertador Municipality.
It was built in 1935 in the Caracas urbanization of Los Chaguaramos, forming one of the new humanized spaces of the city that began to develop from the extension of the layout of the colonial layout. It is formed by an organic water mirror, with free curves, bordered by sidewalks and gardens with arboreal species represented by the so-called weeping willow. At the southern end of the water mirror a sculptural set of small dimensions representative of giving meaning to space and defining the place; It is the work of the Italian sculptor Pietro Ceccarelli, who exemplarily copied the work "The Three Graces" by the greatest representative of sculptural neoclassicism: Antonio Canova (1757-1822). The Three Graces by Pietro Ceccarelli
The square is located in Paseo Los illustres, which is part of the Urban System of La Nacionalidad, just opposite the University City of Caracas, campus of one of the main higher education centers of that country, the Central University of Venezuela. Plaza Las Tres Gracias was reopened in 1957 by the government of Marcos Pérez Jiménez.
It owes its name to the goddesses or Tres Cárites Talia, Aglaya and Eufrósine that according to Greek mythology represented comedy, intelligence and joy and were daughters of Zeus and Eurynome. On October 17, 1999 the plaza is reopened after months of work that involved the restoration of the statues.
In the vicinity of the square is the Metro station of Caracas, Ciudad Universitaria.
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