The Plaza La Concordia is a public space of the Santa Teresa parish in Caracas, Venezuela.
In the space that today occupies the square was the prison of La Rotunda, built in 1844 but then became the main symbol of the political repression of President Juan Vicente Gómez, the prison was demolished by order of President Eleazar López Contreras in 1936 a few months after the death of Gómez.
After its demolition, it was decided to raise a square in honor of the "freedom fighters in America" and the project was entrusted to the architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva. The construction began in 1937 and was inaugurated in 1940 with a monophonic neoclassical temple as the central and main point of the plaza sign of love, peace and union. It had roof of tiles and columns Greek style. Inside the structure was a marble statue representing Venezuela. In 1961 the temple was demolished and instead it was decided to create a concrete structure by engineer Tomas Reina and architect Eduardo Robles Piquer.
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