Day of Youth

The Day of Venezuelan Youth is celebrated in this date, in commemoration of Batalla of the Victory, gained exemplarily in 1814 by Jose Felix Ribas with young people of the Seminary and the University of Caracas. The 10 of February of 1947 the Constituent Assembly decrees that it is celebrated the 12 of February like the Day of Youth in Venezuela “in recognition to the service been in to the republic by the young people”. In all the country commemorative acts of the Day of Youth are carried out, but the central acts of this day are made in the city of the Victory, in the main seat that takes to the name of the hero Jose Felix Ribas and where the escultórico group integrated by the hero exists and several young people who receive instructions on the handling of a weapon.