Tourist Places

TOURIST PLACES

We recommend a walk through its streets, especially 10th Street between 3rd race. and 7th where you can see beautiful mansions. In this sector also finds numerous colonial churches and the Gold Museum, a place that can not be missed. Other important sites in this area are:

The Teatro Colón:

The Teatro Colon in Bogota is Colombia's national theater, built in an area of ​​2,400 square meters. Neoclassical style and its facade is Doric Tuscan stone carved with three parts separated by two stone ledges also. It was built by the Italian architect Pietro Cantini, who was then working at the National Capitol building and the October 5, 1885 the first stone was laid in the same place where once operated the Teatro Coliseo Maldonado. Ramirez and ornamentation and construction decoration were made by Swiss architect Luigi Ramelli. It was named in honor of Christopher Columbus, and opened on October 12, 1892 to commemorate the fourth centenary of the discovery of America. It has a capacity of about 900 spectators. The Teatro Colón was declared a National Monument by Decree 1584 of August 11 and was 19 752 as the seventh wonder of Colombia in a poll conducted by the newspaper El Tiempo among its readers nationwide in 2007 to choose the 7 Wonders of Colombia

Luis Angel Arango Library

Luis Angel Arango Library is a library located in the neighborhood of La Candelaria in downtown Bogota. He has nearly two million volumes, an area of ​​45,000 square meters, six floors, two basements. The day receives about 5,000 usuarios.1 current headquarters was inaugurated on February 20, 1958 by the Central Bank, an institution to which he belongs. It is named after who promoted, the Manager of the Central Bank from 1947 to 1957. He is head of the Library Network of the Republic Bank

The Environmental Axis Jiménez Avenue, where the surface was an underground river.

In 1997 he undertook one of the most ambitious projects of reclaiming public space in downtown Bogotá. The environmental axis rather than a project was an undertaking great efforts to sue the city. Architects and Luis Rogelio Salmona Kopec were the designers of the project was finally approved in 19991 during Enrique Peñalosa's mayoral and its construction lasted until 2001.This project was established basically Jiménez Avenue as a large brick footpath accompanied by the San Francisco river channel and forested with native plant species as the wax palm springs and peppers. In 2002 he established a line of TransMilenio transportation system that runs along the environmental axis until the 3rd race. Significantly, by the construction in brick, with the passage of the articulated bus, route constant undamaged.

The Planetarium





The planetarium was built on the initiative of Mayor Virgilio Barco Vargas at 1967.1 and was officially opened on 22 December 1969.2 This was the first of a set of nine museums, currently operating as a cultural center. In the Planetarium are not only the theater of stars, but also the Museum of Bogotá (former Museum of Urban Development), the Santa Fe Gallery and Room Oriol Rangel. The building also housed in the beginning, the Natural Science Museum, the Film District and the Museum of Modern Art.
In 2008, when the city turned 470 years, the Planetarium bought a new projector for projecting image of addition were adapted astros.3 internal circulation spaces in lower and higher plants, expanding rooms for temporary exhibitions. In order to provide better service to visitors, were opened to the public a souvenir shop and a modern café.
In 2011 began the last phase of remodeling the planetarium in which the structure was strengthened, improved signaling, was renewed dome projection screen, expanded capacity and built the Space Museum, which consists of five interactive rooms