Learn Spanish in Sucre, Bolivia - Spanish language schools in Sucre, Bolivia

Learn Spanish in Sucre. This city is blessed with a mild climate and a cheery disposition. It's been called the Paris of South America because the wealth here attracted some of the finest arts and culture from all over the world. It's also been known as the Athens of South America because it's home to the continent's second-oldest and most prestigious university, San Francisco Xavier University, which dates to 1624 and has educated presidents of Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Uruguay, and of course, Bolivia. (Today, out of a total pop. of 200,000, over 30,000 are students, many of them studying medicine or law.) In 1825, some of the most important South American revolutionaries converged upon the city and signed the country's declaration of independence. Sucre then became the capital of the new republic.

These days, Sucre is the capital of Bolivia in name only -- both the executive and legislative branches of the government left long ago for La Paz. Nevertheless, the city remains one of the most colorful and interesting places in Bolivia to visit and learn the Spanish language. Visitors can sit in the room where the Bolivian declaration of independence was signed, tour churches and museums that still have impressive collections of colonial art, and view the dinosaur tracks that archaeologists recently discovered right in Sucre's backyard.