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| Ciudad bendita | |
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 Title card | |
| Genre | Telenovela |
| Created by | Leonardo Padrón |
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| Directed by |
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| Creative director | Yvo Hernández |
| Starring | |
| Music by |
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| Opening theme | "Ciudad Bendita" by Roque Valero |
| Country of origin | Venezuela |
| Original language | Spanish |
| No. of episodes | 214 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Carolina De Jacobo |
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| Production location | Caracas |
| Cinematography | José Pérez |
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| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Original release | |
| Network | Venevisión |
| Release | July 25, 2006 (2006-07-25) – April 4, 2007 (2007-04-04) |
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Ciudad Bendita is a Venezuelan telenovela produced and broadcast by Venevisión and distributed internationally by Venevisión International. The telenovela is an original story written by Leonardo Padrón.
Marisa Román and Roque Valero star as the main protagonists. Since January 9, 2012, the telenovela has aired in Venezuela through cable channel Venevision Plus to repeated 4pm at 11:30 pm. It is considered a most successful telenovela written by Leonardo Padrón, after Cosita rica.
Plot
Set in the heat of a popular market, Ciudad Bendita tells the love story between two peddlers, two losers, two people of the heap, as anonymous as any. Bendita Sanchez has a detail that obscures her beauty: a limp. On a bus trip back to Caracas she meets Juan Lobo, an ugly man that dreams of becoming a musician, and he instantly falls in love with her.
However, Bendita happens to love another: Yunior Mercado, a metrosexual playboy, and only views Juan Lobo as a friend despite his composing of various songs to win her favor.
Ciudad Bendita is a great tribute to unrequited love, as well as the story of a country, a people, an entire community living on poverty, and a handful of survivors who dream of learning the key to happiness in the muddy streets of a Latin American city.
Cast
Starring
- Marisa Román as Bendita Sánchez
- Roque Valero as Juan Lobo
Also starring
- Juan Carlos García as Yúnior Mercado
- Alba Roversi as María "Maga" Gabriela
- Nohely Arteaga as Magaly de Mercado / Doble M
- Gledys Ibarra as Mercedes Zuleta / La Diabla
- Yanis Chimaras as Guaicaipuro Mercado / Puro
- Beatriz Valdés as Trina de Palacios
- Caridad Canelón as Peregrina de Lobo
- Henry Soto as Kike "Kikin" Palacios
- Carlos Cruz as Baldomero Sánchez
- Carlota Sosa as Julia Barrios de Venturini
- Lourdes Valera as Francisca
- Luis Gerónimo Abreu as Jorge Venturini / Grillo
- Milena Santander as Prudencia Barrios
- Guillermo Dávila as Macario
- Manuel Salazar as Rotundo Quiñones
- Daniela Bascopé as Fedora Palacios
- Elaiza Gil as Mi Alma
- Ana María Simón as Mediática
- Andreína Yépez as Zulay Montiel Barranco
- Alejandro Corona as Etcétera
- Jessica Grau as Marugenia "Maru" Torrealba
- Yván Romero as Kenny G
- María Cristina Lozada as Consuelo
- Carlos Villamizar as Robinson Sánchez
- Freddy Galavís as Ismael Lobo
- Mirtha Borges as Bertha
- Pedro Durán as Cafecito
- Humberto García as Fausto
- Martín Lantigua as Tobías
- Jean Paul Leroux as Jerry Colón
- Anastasia Mazzone as Kimberly Mercado
- Laureano Olivares as Julio Augusto Sánchez
- Susej Vera as Valentina
- Josemith Bermúdez as Tiki
- Antonio Delli as Gonzalo Venturini
- Erika Pacheco as Vera
- Adriana Romero as Yamilé
- Paula Woyzechowsky as Rosita
- David Garcés as Ricardo
- Simón Rojas as Cheo
Special participation
- Carlos Montilla as Darwin Manuel
References
- "Ciudad bendita"
- "La profecía de Bendita Sánchez sobre Roque Valero que muchos ignoraron". lapatilla.com (in Spanish). 19 May 2017. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
