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Bogota Travel Guide - Where to go in Bogota

Where to go in Bogota

For over 200 years, the German scientist Alexander von Humboldt visited Bogotá and impressed by his intellectual development and scientific institutions named, "The South American Athens." Bogota is now a metropolis with a variety of options to enjoy. There you will find sites that will let you know more about their culture, their customs, history and people. In Colombia's capital, you will find sites of interest, whether artistic, social and sports.

Much of its museums are located in downtown Bogota, spaces that allow you to learn more about the Colombian culture and their ancestral wealth. Its national parks have been designed to enjoy calm and relaxing environment surrounded by lakes and nature alive. It is common to find at these locations, platforms tailored for the realization of artistic activities and the presentation of musical genres.


Bogotá also offers expertise in areas typical foods of the best rumba and music tastes, both capital and tourists. There are also spaces for art, culture and to enjoy the texture, color and sound in all its forms. Finally found the typical craft places, which offer the most beautiful crafts of the country.

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Where to go in Bogota - Museums


Bogotá has many monuments to visit, national architectural heritage, each holds a part of the history of Bogota and the country, its terrain as if they spend the remaining years alive the spirit of that religious and libertador allowing time transported into the past. Most of these monuments are located in the towns of Candelaria and Chapinero Usaquén.

Bogotá also offers educational alternatives for when you go to a museum, you find there, making the routes according to their interests, there is a variety of them in the capital, so that does not leave disappointed, but by the otherwise acquire cultural knowledge through them.

Today in Bogota as a visitor you will have the opportunity to transform and enhance their criteria, knowing the development of the cultural values of the capital. It also has the opportunity to have valuable guides to report on the various tours that make for these amazing places. Stimulates their critical vision through them and take a good tour of the center of the capital. The museum is now a center of knowledge, from the discovery that you made about them.

So when you go to Bogota will also find a variety of monuments, through which you can discover the history of the country are over 27 museums that decorate the city, through them you can discover the life and work of the characters Bogota.

 

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

Gold Museum:
Location: Cl. 16 # 5-41
Telephone: 3432221, 3432222
http://www.banrep.org/museo
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Where to go in Bogota - Natural Parks


Ideal space to enter into direct contact with nature. There you can see, touch, smell, feel and experience the magic offered by these gardens adorned with wildlife of all colors, shapes and sizes. Remember this is a place to reflect, meditate and be with oneself, family and friends, covered by a very special environment.

Bogota now has a large number of parks, because of its ecological structure, so that you have available to large green areas, which are adequately protected in order to observe the great variety of fauna and flora. Most of them are located in the mountain system of the Savannah. They are part of the eastern hills, forest reserves and wetlands.

In Bogota as in large cities, the green areas are public property and open access movement. Also from this wealth of the city, the rivers, streams and canals. All these attractions were created for urban recreation in Bogota, tourists and citizens in general.

 

Simón Bolivar Park:
Location: Furrowed by the floods "cross 48", "Rush 68", "street 63" and "Calle 53"0
With an area of 113 hectares, an acoustic shell and a plaza for events among other attractions.
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Botanic Garden :
Location: Av. Cll. 57 No. 61 - 13
Telephone: 4377060
http://www.jbb.gov.co
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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  

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Where to go in Bogota - Theaters


The capital of Colombia, is a place full of art where it is walking, has theaters open to the public every month of the year, there are daily presentations changing season to season, works which reflect the culture and customs of Bogotá Some of them show from their lyrics, criticism of the different social, political, and his characters, both nationally and internationally.

Each theater is designed to be active between asistententes and works there.

 

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 

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Where to go in Bogota - Libraries


Spaces that were created according to the needs of the public who daily come to the reading and research as part of education implemented by the National Government. Bogota has one of the countries with the most comprehensive coverage in libraries in the country, so that in 2007 the city was named "World Book Capital.

Today libraries are very well equipped rooms and vanguiardia of modern life. Each of them has the technology today to enjoy a good time, relaxed and in the company you want to read the book. Much of the existing libraries are surrounded by extensive gardens, which means that these sites become comfortable.

The largest libraries in the city are divided into rooms suitable for reading for free Internet browsing and research. Are being regularly exhibits artists known and anonymous those who wish to share with the audience their love of art in galleries designed spaces. There are also rooms specially decorated for children, where they can feel free to explore the magical world of reading.

 

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
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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}

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Where to go in Bogota - Monuments


Bogotá has many monuments to visit, national architectural heritage, each holds a part of the history of Bogota and the country. Spaces if not preserved as the years pass still keeping alive the spirit of religious liberation and the time spent making it possible to be transported. Most of these monuments are located in the towns of Candelaria and Chapinero Usaquén.

Bogotá also offers educational alternatives for when you go to a museum, there is the possibility to find the routes according to their interests, there is a variety of them in the capital that does not leave disappointed, but on the contrary, acquires cultural knowledge through them.

Today in Bogota as a visitor you have the opportunity to transform and enhance their criteria, knowing the development of cultural values of the capital. There is also a valuable guide to inform you about the different routes that make these wonderful places.

So your vision is critical to encourage through them and take a good tour of the center of the capital. The museum is now a center of knowledge, from the discovery that you made about them.
So when you visit Bogotá there are plenty of monuments, through which you can discover the history of the country are over 27 that decorate the city, through them you can discover the life and work of the characters Bogota.

 

Monserrate Mountain top:
Location: Cra. 2 Este No. 21 - 48 Paseo Bolivar
Telephone: 284 5700
http://www.cerromonserrate.com
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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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Where to go in Bogota - Amusement Parks


They are designed for large and small enjoy the activities in the middle of the countryside and nature that allow us to know more about the different species of flora and fauna. There are spaces designed to recreate the city life, where children pretend to be taking the major roles of each profession, others seeking to recreate the tales we all know children.

The main goal of the creators of these parks is entertainment, where visitors have fun while learning. Theme park holds a set of attractions, where visitors can while they are entertained, learn, relax, served as classroom and cultural training.

Throughout the world it is common to find these places and Bogotá are not left behind, they are developing cultural life and to attract large and small, is an ideal opportunity to raise awareness of issues that you previously only competed in the schools, you can learn from them, science, mathematics, ecology, technology, anthropology, geology and others.

 

Maloka:
Location: Cra 68 No. 24 A 51 D
Telephone: 4272707 Ext 1010 to 1301
http://www.maloka.org
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Museum of Children:
Location: Cra 48 No. 63-97
Phone: 2257587
http://www.museodelosninos.org.co

Divercity:
Location: Calle 183 Autopista Norte No. 45-03 / Centro Comercial Santafé
Phone: 6790077
http://www.divercity.com.co

Panaca Savannah:
Location: Km 4 Via Briceño - Zipaquira
Phone: 3077002
http://www.panacasabana.com

Salitre Mágico:
Location: Cll 63 No. 48 - 96
Phone: 6605000
http://www.salitremagico.com.co

World Adventure:
Location: Transversal 71D No. 6-30 South
At the eastern side of Avenida Boyaca Avenue between May 1 and Av Americas.
Phone: 414-2700
http://www.mundoaventura.com.co

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