Touristic Places

Tourist sites representative of the city

CANDELARIA SECTOR History

We recommend a walk through its streets, especially 10th Street between 3rd race. and 7th where you can see beautiful mansions. In this sector also finds numerous colonial churches and the Gold Museum, a place that can not be missed.

Other important sites in this area are:

* The Teatro Colón
* Luis Angel Arango Library
* The Mint
* The Museum "Botero Donation"
* The Plaza Bolivar
* The Environmental Axis Jiménez Avenue, where the surface was an underground river.

INTERNATIONAL CENTER

This sector revolves around Tequendama Intercontinental Hotel. In its vicinity are:

- The Plaza de Toros La Santa Maria
- The Museum of Modern Art (MAM)
- The National Museum
- The Planetarium, and in turn lowers the Museum of Bogotá.
- The Church of San Diego, displays of colonial architecture.
An overview of many of the city can be achieved from the viewpoint of Colpatria Tower, the tallest building in the city. Opening to the public on weekends.



Ciudad Salitre and western

It has a shopping center, and the front center of science and technology teaching "Maloka", the most important of its kind in Latin America.

In this area we find the Botanical Garden, site of interest considering that Colombia is one of the three countries with the highest biodiversity on Earth.

Three parks, Simón Bolívar, the Salitre and the Boyfriends house most green area of ​​the city.

The library Virgilio Barco is a masterpiece of architecture, which achieves a perfect balance between the brick and lakes.

Corferias is a large trade fair that has year-round exhibitions and national and international events.

ZONA ROSA

Street axis being 82 are two shopping centers: the Andino and Atlantis Plaza.

Around and especially on 82nd Street are located many bars, restaurants, casinos and bookstores.

Park 93

It is one of the fashion in Bogotá. Around its beautiful park are located restaurants and bars.

UNICENTRO

Opened in the seventies was the first major commercial center of Bogota. It has a wide range of facilities and also boasts two large chain stores, restaurants, cinemas, casino, play area for children, banks, exchange houses, bookstores, bowling, casino, cinema, crafts etc.

USAQUEN

It is an old village which was absorbed by the city. It emphasizes its central park, with a beautiful example of colonial art represented in the church and surrounded by a wealth of gastronomic restaurants of various origins. Opens Sunday flea market with lots of crafts, food and general products made manually.

One of the attractions of the sector is the Hacienda Santa Barbara shopping center located in the old house of a farm in the savanna. It has restaurants, stores, banks, exchange houses, jewelry stores, movie theaters and skating rink.

LIBRARIES

Luis Angel Arango Library
National Library
Virgilio Barco Library
Library Tunal
Library The Tintal
MALLS

Unicentro
Hacienda Santa Barbara
Atlantis
Retirement Mall
Unilago (Specialist in computers)
Metropolis
Andean
Cedritos
Granahorrar
Galleries
Salitre Plaza
Plaza of the Americas
City Tunal





WEST:

Simon Bolivar Park
Parc Boyfriends
Parque Salitre Mágico
Adventure World Park
José Celestino Mutis Botanical Garden
Parque La Florida



PARKS

CENTER:

National Park
Independence Park


NORTH:

Park 93
Chico Museum Park
The Viceroy Park
SOUTH:

Park Tunal
SAVANNAH:

Parque Jaime Duque

SAVANNAH

Full of picturesque villages, many of them Indian names, is the Sabana de Bogotá.

ZIPAQUIRA

Following the North Freeway and turning westward in La Caro, passed through Cajicá, famous for its wool, and comes after the city of Zipaquirá. That's essential to know the Salt Cathedral, carved in the bowels of the mine. It is 120 meters deep and covers an area of ​​8,000 square meters.

A few kilometers from Zipaquirá is Neusa Reservoir. It is a place for nature lovers and water sports, for there you can camp, fishing and nautical activities.




GUATAVITA And Tomine

To the northeast of Bogota, on the North Highway, lies the village of Guatavita and 16 kilometers, the lake of the same name. This is famous because it gave rise to the legend of Eldorado. Tradition holds that religious ceremonies were held there where the Cacique, dusty gold, plunged into the lagoon as a sign of offering to the gods, while his subjects threw water gems and metalwork.

In 1967 the construction of a dam and flooded the old town was built near Guatavita La Nueva, with an architectural style that mimics the colonial Spanish. In Guatavita good restaurants with typical food and a craft center.

The Tomine reservoir made over the old town of Guatavita, is a nice place for boating and water sports.

La Calera and SOPO

To the northeast of Bogota, the road follows the road race 84 with 7 to the hills leading to the nearby towns of La Calera and Sopo. Since the road has an excellent panoramic view of the city. In La Calera is a recreational park where you can spend many happy days.

Sopo is 50 km from Bogota. Its surroundings are Jaime Duque Park with many attractions, the recreational park with its attractive Alpina dairy products, and the shrine of Our Lady of the Rock.

FACATATIVA:

We found 40 km. city. There you can make as archaeological tourism in its vicinity is the Zipas fencing or stone or Tunjo Tunja, with a wealth of extraordinary size rocks whose contours protrude pictograms or cave paintings made by the Chibcha, residents these lands before the arrival of the Spanish.

Also there are the caves of San Rafael with interconnecting tunnels.

TEQUENDAMA JUMP:

A 40 km. Bogota find this impressive waterfall of 150 meters high, not only its magnificent trail, but its landscape, make it a privileged place. Because they collect water from the Sabana de Bogotá has a great ecological, mythological and even more because for Muiscas was where Bochita miraculously managed to evacuate the water that flooded the plateau.

On the way to the waterfall is located in Santa Cruz Zoo with over 500 species of animals in Colombia and abroad.