Beautiful Places

Beautiful Places

The beautiful places in Bogota abound the city, but only the most beautiful are  here placing worthy:

Simon Bolivar Metropolitan Park

Simon Bolivar Metropolitan Park is the largest urban park and important city of Bogotá, 2 is located in the geographic center of Bogota (Colombia) in Teusaquillo. It is crossed by avenues Transversal 48, Carrera 68 from east to west and streets 63 and 53, is quite popular among the citizens who visit it daily. While the metropolitan park, consists of several parks, the citizens tend to refer to each of these parks differently and separately, do not associate with the image of a single "megapark". Construction began in 1966, initially contained a sporting house. In 1968 on the occasion of the visit of Pope Paul VI to the 39th International Eucharistic Congress was built a small temple, which was called Eucharistic Templete. At that time, the park already had lakes and planted the first trees. Later they built a second temple for the visit of Pope John Paul II in June 1986. The park has an infrastructure of cycleways, footpaths, parking for vehicles and a ceremonial plaza (known as Plaza Event) with capacity for 140,000 people, the majority of this infrastructure was remodeled, restored or additions besides readecuada of bike paths, malls and other important works in the administrations of mayors Enrique Peñalosa and Antanas Mockus.

Simon Bolivar Metropolitan Park is a set of surrounding parkland, its length is greater than that of Central Park in New York, a total amount over 400 hectares. Today is considered the "lungs of the city", because of its strategic location in the heart of Bogota, for its extensive vegetation and large size of its greenery. Also by the amount and variety of scenarios that comprise it.

Botanical Garden "José Celestino Mutis"

Bogotá Botanical Garden "José Celestino Mutis" is the largest botanical garden in Colombia. It lies in the savannah of Bogota, 2600 meters above sea level in the tropical belt has nearly 12 hours of sunlight a day. Its average annual rainfall is 713 mm. 19.5 has been next to Parque Simon Bolivar, is a research, education and leisure from the Colombian capital. Member of BGCI. It is administered by the municipal government of Bogotá. It was created in 1955 in honor of the naturalist, mathematician and astronomer José Celestino Mutis Cadiz.

This botanical garden houses some 18,206 accessions of living plants, with about 2143 taxa of cultivated plants, specializing in plants of the Andean region. This garden contains five special collections dedicated to the conservation of endangered species in the region of the Andes (CEPAC), including botanical families, Araceae, Bromeliaceae, Cactaceae, Lamiaceae and Orchidaceae.

The National Museum of Colombia

The National Museum of Colombia is the oldest museum in Colombia. The collection is divided into four collections: art, history, archeology and ethnography. His collection of Colombian art, including Latin American and European paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, installations and decorative arts from the colonial period to the present. His property was originally a penitentiary, and its Danish architect Thomas Reed.

Founded by Act of the first Congress of the Republic on July 28, 1823, the National Museum of Colombia is the oldest museum in the country and one of the oldest in America. For nearly two centuries has been dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of evidence representative of the cultural values ​​of the nation.
It opened to the public on July 4, 1824, when Vice President, General Francisco de Paula Santander declared officially created, and its first chief scientist Mariano Eduardo de Rivero and Ustariz. The National Museum was initially installed in the Botanical House, which housed the natural history collection gathered by José Celestino Mutis and tended their disciples, with the passage of time these pieces were added others of archaeological, historical and artistic.
Throughout its history, the National Museum of Colombia has held various offices. From its founding until 1842 and occupied the old house-now defunct-Botany, from 1845 to 1913, the building of classrooms-current-Colonial Art Museum, from 1913 to 1922, the Passage Rufino Cuervo-today-gone;, 1922 to 1944, the building Pedro A. Bank Lopez, now the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, and from 1948 to date, the facilities of the former Central Penitentiary of Cundinamarca, known as "Panopticon"