Trips to Colombia

TRIPS TO COLOMBIA: BOGOTA

Tourist information: www.bogotaturismo.gov.co

Department: Cundinamarca

Temperature average: 14 °C

Altitude: 2630 ms


Main sites of interest:

- Museum of Gold

- House of the Currency

- National Museum of Colombia

- House Museum Villa of Bolivar

- Interactive Center of science and Maloka technology


The city of Bogota, capital of Colombia, is center of businesses and important it soothes of cultural events. It offers to his attractive diverse visitors like museums, historical monuments, thematic parks and of diversions, national and international gastronomy and magnificent commercial centers.

It was founded on 1538 by Don Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, and from that moment one has stayed like an important political, cultural and economic center. The quality of capital city was granted to him in 1740, in the days of the colony, when still the Virreinato of New Granada existed.

In 1819, when reaching independence, the present Republic of adopted it to Colombia like its capital.

At the moment, Bogota lodges part of its history in the imposing large houses inhabited at the time of the colony by virreyes, oidores and diverse civil servants of the Spanish administration.
These beautiful houses work today like cultural museums, restaurants or centers, and in its majority they are located in the district the Candlemas, historical center of the city.

On the race seventh, between streets 10 and 11, is the Place of the Bolivar, most important of the capital. To his around they are the Prioritized Cathedral, the Chapel of the Shrine, the Archiepiscopal Palace, the National Capitol (where sesiona of the Republic) the Liévano building (it soothes of the mayorship of the city) Palace and the House, the Congress Museum 20 of Julio of Justice, constructed recently. Towards the south of the Place is the Palace of Nariño, calls to account and office of the President of the Republic.

These constructions represent styles of different times and contrast with the colonial architecture of the zone. It is conserved without number of old churches of styles baroque and Renaissance, between which they emphasize the Prioritized Cathedral and the Sanctuary of Monserrate, that although less old, is known like a tourist place of spectacular attractive peregrination and by the panoramic one that offers of the city.

The environs of the city offer pleasant restaurants, antique dealers and interesting places to visit like the Cathedral of salt of Zipaquirá, the Lagoon of Guatavita, the savannah of Bogota. among others.