Art

ART IN BOGOTÁ

The city also has a great offer of scenarios to enjoy musical performances of all kinds, from the most popular to the most exalted. Each year there are seven park festivals (Jazz, Hip Hop, Colombia, salsa, opera, dance and rock), lunada, seasons of opera and zarzuela, among many other shows of international stature. And if the interest is to know our historical and cultural heritage, in Bogotá blend past and present represented in architecture, museums and art works. Bogota offers 161 national monuments and 28 houses of worship, worth visiting. 

The music of Colombia is an expression of the Colombian culture, diverse music genres Which contains, traditional and moderns ACCORDING With The features of each geographic region, although it is frequent to find different musical styles in the same region.

Our city, as the largest and most troubled cities, enjoys a rich cultural agenda, mixed national and international events that shelter all artistic expressions: concerts, exhibitions, theater, film clubs, art galleries, photography, literature and poetry , events in public space, handicraft and antiques.

Among many other exceptional sites, Bogotá is the holder of the Gold Museum, the best in the world of its kind, the Botero Museum, the collection of contemporary art from Latin America fuller worth over 450 million euros donated by the Colombian painter Fernando Botero, the Iberoamerican Theater Festival, the largest in the world and one that brings together a comprehensive and varied shows as theater, the National Salon of Artists, the Arts Biennial of Bogotá, the International Art Fair of Bogota, the prize Luis Caballero, the Hall Young Art Fair Bogotá International Art ... art exhibitions in over 70 galleries and 58 museums, theater and film in 45 rooms over 40 rooms.

Theater and performing arts

Bogotá became the seat of the most important theater festival in the world: The Iberoamerican Theater Festival, which is held every two years, bringing together artists from around the world. Apart from other theater festivals in the city, the 45 theaters in the city keep a large supply every day of the year in different theatrical genres, from classical to contemporary and cutting edge.

Besides the aforementioned Iberoamerican Theater Festival, the city has forty-five theaters, the main, the Teatro Colon and the rooms of the National Theater in its two locations, La Castellana and the Calle 71 and traditional TPB room, Teatro La Candelaria, the Teatro del Carmen Camarín (with over 400 years of existence, which was formerly a convent, then a hospital, then and now hotel restaurant and theater), Theatre Colsubsidio (private) , and a symbol of the city, the renovated Teatro Jorge Gaitan, the highest capacity currently in South America, located at Carrera Seventh International Center of Bogotá, León de Greiff Auditorium located at the National University of Colombia, auditorium is the largest and the best acoustics of Colombia, where he currently presents the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra and many other cultural events. It is also called Open Air Theatre, "La Media Torta", where musical events are also held.
With regard to cinema, the metropolis has its own film festival, the Bogotá Film Festival, and numerous rooms, which present both as the best films of the time commercial cinema as art cinema, allowing appreciate various embodiments of directors Europeans, Asians and Latin Americans.
The main cultural center of the city is in the La Candelaria, historic center of the city, this has a concentration of universities and academic centers only in South America. In the same sector are the most important museums of the city, for these reasons and more, for 2007 Bogotá was designated the Ibero-American Capital Culture.