Parque Bolívar sits on a slight rise about ten minutes' walk north of the central plaza and is the city's main green space. Laid out at the end of the 19th century by sucrenses who admired Paris, it has elegant tree-lined avenues, fountains, ornamental flower beds, and a curious collection of monuments: a miniature copy of the Eiffel Tower, an Arc de Triomphe replica, and a statue of Simón Bolívar on horseback. There is a small lake with rowing boats and an old-fashioned bandstand where weekend concerts are sometimes held.
The park is popular with families on Sundays — children's rides, food vendors, balloon sellers. On weekdays it is calm and a pleasant place to sit and read. The towering modern Palace of Justice (Palacio de Justicia, the seat of Bolivia's Supreme Court) overlooks the western edge of the park, a reminder that Sucre is still officially the country's judicial capital.