Bogotá Historic Center

Bogotá is a cosmopolitan city that preserves and treasures its bounds with the history and the past; to learn about it the visitors just need to take a stroll by Bogotá historic center of cobbled streets and colorful facades. In its houses of colonial eaves and balconies in La Candelaria neighborhood, you will hear also the Viceroys ghosts that once inhabited the backyards and hallways.

Nowadays the colonial houses of La Candelaria became theaters and museums. The big houses are theaters (La Candelaria, Seki Sano, el Tecal, García Márquez, etc.) and museums (Colonial, del Florero, Casa de la Moneda, Quinta de Bolívar, Militar, etc.) or just disappear for the construction of modern University buildings (La Salle, Externado, Andes, etc.) and the most visited library in the continent Luís Ángel Arango.

In this few blocks with the time lived together religious, military, government and education entities. On the 8ª Carrera, and refugee inside the astronomic observatory, the Presbyterian José Celestino Mutis and his disciples, reply the American science achievements, a block to the north in the antique Calle Real (Nowadays Carrera 7ª), due a flower vase the revolution starts.

In one of the mentioned houses, nowadays the whitest, Simón Bolívar escape of the dead by a window that till our days maintain its popularity; and on Calle 13, in a house that remains intact due the years José Asunción Silva, the great poet, kill himself with a bullet in his heart, nowadays in that house the Poetry House is settled.

The patrimonial and tourist interest places in Bogotá center are:

- Anthropology and History Institute
- Luís Ángel Arango Library
- National Astronomy Observatory

Churches in Bogotá Historic Center

- Chorro de Quevedo Chapel
- Del Sagrario Chapel
- La Bordadita Chapel
- Colombia Primada Cathedral – Located in Bolivar squarer: It was the first cathedral of Santa Fe de Bogotá.
- San Ignacio Cloister
- San Agustín Church
- San Agustín Convent and its magnificent temple were important sceneries of Colombia National History.
- San Ignacio Church and Las Aulas Cloister: It is simply splendid, from the cupola, the naves, and the altars till the choir.
- San Juan de Dios Church (National Monument): It was finished in 1739; it has one of the highest towers of the city.
- Santa Bárbara Church (National Monument): It is enhanced as it was part of a different edification, the magnificent porch.
- Santa Clara Museum Church
- La Candelaria Church and Cloister: It was built in 1650 and rebuilt in 1686 to 1703.
- Santa María de Las Aguas Church and Cloister (National Monument): The temple has wonderful paintings of the best colony artists.
- Nuestra Señora del Carmen Cloister and Sanctuary: It was one of the most sumptuous sanctuaries of the city.

Theaters in Bogotá historic center

- La Media Torta Open Air Theater
- La Candelaria Theater
- Libre de Bogotá Theater

Museums in Bogotá Historic center

- Casa de la Moneda: It is a beautiful colonial construction, where nowadays the numismatic museum is settled.
- Silva Poetry House
- Rafael Pombo House
- Del Márquez de San Jorge House
- 20 de Julio Museum House: In it used to have settled its commercial house the Spanish José Gonzáles Llorente. The request of the flower vase unchained, on July 20,1810 the Colombian independency..
- Quinta de Bolívar House Museum
- José Ignacio Perdomo Escobar Musical Instruments collection
- MAMBO – Bogota Modern Art Museum
- Botero Museum
- Arte Colonial Museum
- Arte Religioso Museum
- Arte y Tradiciones Populares Museum
- Desarrollo Urbano de Santa Fe de Bogotá Museum
- Policía Museum
- Trajes Regionales de Colombia Museum
- Santa Clara Church Museum: In this museum you will find the most select art collections.
- Militar de Colombia Museum

Squares in Bogotá Historic Center

- Bolívar Square: Since 1846 the main square of Bogotá was named “Plaza de Bolívar”, the statue is one of the most beautiful art work of the famous sculptor Pietro Tenerani.
- Egipto Square
- Chorro de Quevedo Square: Bogotá foundation takes place in this square; it has an historic meaning for the entire city.
- Del Rosario Square: In the middle of the square is settled the founder sculpture, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, in the south side its located the Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario Universitary Cloister and La Bordadita Chapel (both monuments).
- Las Aguas Square
- San Carlos or Rufino José Cuervo Square: The interior house belonged to the French doctor Luís de Roux, friend of Antonio Nariño, and it was there where the precursor settled the Patriotic printer where its translation will be edited "The rights of the man and the citizen” proclaimed by the French Revolution.