Tierra de nadie (Central University of Venezuela) facts for kids

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Tierra de Nadie

UNESCO World Heritage Site
Location	University City of Caracas, Venezuela
Criteria	Cultural: (i), (iv)
Inscription	2000 (24th Session)

Tierra de nadie (No man's land) is the unofficial name of a public green space officially called Plaza Jorge Rodríguez in the University City of Caracas, the campus of the Central University of Venezuela.

Location and history

It takes its name because it is an area that belongs to none of the faculties that surround it, serving as a shared space for the whole university community; it is one of the most recognized meeting places within the university. The spaces that border the Tierra de nadie include the Plaza del Rectorado, the Aula Magna, the Central library, the canteen of the university, and several faculty buildings. The area designated the Tierra de nadie also extends to a small wooded area to the north and northeast of the square.' An old magazine of UCV's School of Social Communication was also named Tierra de nadie.

Artworks

In this area there are many monuments, plants and paths, including murals of the Rectory Plaza by Oswaldo Vigas that face the space, and the statues Maternidad by Baltasar Lobo and Monumento a los caídos de la generación del 28 by Ernest Maragall.

There is also a dedication plaque to honor Jorge Rodríguez Sr., a politician murdered by the government in 1976, which has been vandalised on several occasions, sometimes by the university's management and rector Cecilia García Arocha, as a response to the controversial man, his politics, and his son, Jorge Rodríguez.

See also

In Spanish: Tierra de nadie (UCV) para niños

• Aula Magna (Central University of Venezuela)
• Carlos Raúl Villanueva