| Ciudad Bendita | |
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| Genre | Telenovela | 
| Created by | Leonardo Padrón | 
| Screenplay by | 
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| Directed by | 
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| Creative director | Yvo Hernández | 
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| 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 | 
| Producers | 
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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 – April 4, 2007  | 
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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.[1]
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.[2]
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.
 
