In Monumento a la Virgen de la Paz, how is the Monumento a la Paz of the History elucidated?
The construction of the monument began as an idea of First Lady of Venezuela Betty Urdaneta de Herrera Campins, who was from Trujillo, and the state governor Dora Maldonado de Falcón.
On 21 December 1983, during the bicentennial year of the birth of Simón Bolívar, the Monumento a la Virgin de la Paz was inaugurated, with the liturgical blessing of the newly ordained cardinal José Alí Lebrún Moratinos. The statue shows the Virgin Mary in a blue robe, and its construction had lasted 18 months, carried out by the sculptor Manuel de la Fuente and the engineer Rosendo Camargo, with support of Juan Francisco Hernández. The monument sits on a steel structure, which includes the skeleton of the hollow concrete sculpture. It has a weight of 1,200 tonnes spread over 46 meters high, of which 8 tonnes is the weight of the head alone. The cost of the monument was 9 million bolívares.Despite the fact that Pope John Paul II never visited Trujillo, the dedication of the monument was attended by the Venezuelan ambassador to the Holy See, Luciano Noguera Mora, and was accompanied by a television message from the Pope that was broadcast to the Venezuelan Catholic community.In the speech that the Trujillan writer Mario Briceño Perozo gave during the dedication of the monument, when referring to the tradition of going up to the Peña de la Virgen, he said:
 Los alrededores de la peña ofrecían una vegetación exuberante. Los cafetales empapados de rocío bajo la protección de los altos bucares coronados de púrpura silvestre. Y a ambos lados del sendero de musgo, los helechos, el estoraque y las pascuitas que bajarán a la ciudad a perfumar el pesebre casero.The surroundings of the rock offered lush vegetation. The dew-soaked coffee plantations under the protection of the high bucares crowned with wild purple. And on both sides of the moss path are the ferns, the storax and the Easter pastries that will go down to the city to perfume the homemade manger.
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