History.

Initially Bolivar's Park was an area where there was great variety of trees, the poor people lived, in 1829 Colombia reached the British James Tyrrel Moore in 1839 and owned the lands of what is now called Villa Nueva, In 1844 Moore gave the land to build town square, and this is where building a house raffle later, Moore originally wanted this place called New London, the square is called Simon Bolivar in honor of the Liberator and the surrounding streets were named countries where he was the liberator, and now we can watch the races: Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Caracas, Bolivia, but the name of the place is Villa Nueva and it is unknown if the official name and was given by community.

In 1870 he decides to build the Catedral Metropolitana de Medellín and in 1888 executed the plans made by students of the College of Mines. In 1900 he was installed in the middle of the park, the bronze fountain, brought the power of "The Heron" by the sculpture that adorns it. Meanwhile, the life of the Park continues its slow pace, will plant trees slowly and playground is preferred by the people especially on Saturdays and Sundays.