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    BOGOTA TRAVEL GUIDE - Where to go in Bogota
Where to go in Bogota

Bogota has various options to enjoy places, spaces that allow you to learn more about the culture cachaca, its customs, its history, its people. In this cosmopolitan find sites of great cultural, artistic, social, sporting and historical museums among others as much of them located in the city centre, spaces that allow us to identify more closely the Colombian culture and their ancestors, designed parks to enjoy calm and relaxing environment surrounded by lakes and nature, which also carried out various artistic activities to the rhythm of music for all tastes.

Bogota offers areas specializing in food, surrounded by a typical environment where you can give pleasure to your palate with the best recipes in this region and different dishes from other regions of the country, or if you prefer you can also enjoy the best food internationally. Other attractions are the different places craft that holds this city


Where to go in Bogota - Museums

Bogota has more than forty museums full of historical, artistic and cultural, are located throughout the city, especially in the central zone, where its colonial reflect the history of this city, adorned with a collection of pieces that we are entering the magical world of our ancestors, other museums show the significance of the evolution and transformation of the man over the years, integrating the visitor with activities that will enable it to yourself to experience these discoveries.

National Museum:
Location: Cra. 7, streets 28 and 29
Telephone: 334 8366
http://www.museonacional.gov.co

Museum of Modern Art, Mambo:
Location: Cll. 24 No. 6 - 00
Telephone: 6348910
http://www.mambogota.com

Museo del Chicó:
Location: Cra 7 No. 93 - 01                             
Telephone: 6231066
http://www.museodelchico.com

Museum of Contemporary Art:
Location: Cra. 74 No. 82 A 81                            
Telephone: 2525890

Casa Museo Quinta de Bolívar:
Location: Cll. 20 No. 2 - 91 Est.                              
Telephone: 3366410, 3366419
http://www.quintadebolivar.gov.co

Museo del Oro:
Location: Cl. 16 # 5-41                           
Telephone: 3432221, 3432222
http://www.banrep.org/museo

Where to go in Bogota - Natural Parks

They are perfect spaces for entering into direct contact with nature, observe, touch, smell, feel and experience the magic offered by these gardens decorated with wildflowers of all colors, shapes and sizes, lakes that allow you to view reflected the beauty of its surroundings The diversity of flora and fauna of this region of the country and all together creating an atmosphere conducive to meditation and tranquility.

Simón Bolivar Park:
Location: Furrowed by the floods "cross 48", "Rush 68", "street 63" and "Calle 53"0
With an area of 113 hectares, 16 kilometers of roads, play areas for children, and a trotting track for acoustic shell and Events Plaza with a capacity of more than 80 thousand spectators.

Botanic Garden:
Location: Av. Cll. 57 No. 61 - 13
Telephone: 4377060
http://www.jbb.gov.co

Park Lake :
Park known as the bride and groom
Location: Calle 63 No. 38 A 10                            

Florida park:
Located at Km 3 via Engativá-Cota                            
267 hectares of greenery and freshness.

National Park Olaya Herrera :
It has 283 hectares, concentration values istorical, cultural, recreational and natural in one place.
Location: Cra. 7 Streets 36 - 39  

Where to go in Bogota - Theaters

Bogota is a city full of art where you look, with theaters open to the public every month of the year, with presentations daily changing of the season to season, that works are a reflection of our culture and our customs, some suggest between his lyrics to criticize the different characters or situations of the country and the world. Each theater is designed to be an active part of the works presented here.

Theater Cristobal Colón:
National Monument, is a scenario for the development of the performing arts and music.
Featured as one of the most beautiful theaters to the Italian our continent
Location: Cll. 10 No. 5 - 32
Telephone: 2847420 - 3410475

Theater Colsubsidio (Roberto Arias Perez):
Location: Cll. 26 N° 25 - 40
Telephone: 3462670 - 3432673
E-mail: Taquilla.Teatro@colsubsidio.com

Theater Jorge Eliécer Gaitán:
Location: Cra 7 No. 22 - 47  
Telephone: 3346800 ext. 301 - 315
http://www.teatrojorgeeliecer.gov.co                          

Theater Nacional La Castellana:
Location:Calle 95 Nro. 47 - 15                          
Telephone: 2570893

Theater Patria :
Location: Carrera 7a. - Calle 106
Telephone: 2147973 

Where to go in Bogota - Libraries

Spaces created to enjoy an excellent reading amid warm and tranquil surroundings, some of them surrounded by beautiful gardens that make these places even more welcoming.

The larger libraries of the city are divided into rooms adapted for different purposes, regularly makes presentations by well-known artists and others who wish to share with the public love for his art in spaces designed as galleries, other rooms are specially decorated for children, where they can feel the freedom to explore the magical world of reading, there is also an area of meals to enjoy a delicious coffee.

Library Luis Ángel Arango:
Location: Cll. 11 No. 4 - 14
Telephone: 343 12 12
http://www.lablaa.org

Library Virgilio Barco:
Location: Av. Cra. 60 No. 57 - 60
Telephone: 315 8890 / 75

Library El Tintal:
Location: Av. Ciudad de Cali No. 6 C 09  
Telephone: 450 5077 - 452 8974
                     
Library Parque el Tunal:
Location: Cll. 48 B sur No. 21 - 13              
Telephone: 7698734 / 37

Where to go in Bogota - Monuments

Bogota has many monuments to visit, declared national architectural heritage, each holds a part of the history of Bogota and the country, their space preserved as the years pass if you do not even keep alive the spirit and religious heritage of liberating one epoch making transported to the past. Most of these monuments are located in the towns of Candelaria, and Chapinero Usaquén.

Monserrate Mountain top:
Location: Cra. 2 Este No. 21 - 48 Paseo Bolivar
Telephone: 284 5700
http://www.cerromonserrate.com

Casa Museo Quinta de Bolivar:
Declared a National Monument in 1975
It shows passed off as the daily life of the Liberator Simon Bolivar.
Location: Cll. 20 3 - 23 Este
Telephone: 284-6819

Plaza de Bolivar:
In the year 1994 was declared a National Monument
Tourist Attractions: First Cathedral, Capilla del Sagrario, National Capitol, House Museum on July 20, Edificio Lievano
Location: Between the races 7th and 8th, the streets between 10th and 11th  

La Candelaria:
Location: Cll. 48 B sur No. 21 - 13
Telephone: 7698734 / 37


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