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Andrés Carne de ResNot a restaurant, not a club, not a museum: all three at once, with thousands of objects hanging from the ceiling. It began with a meeting on a bus and is now one of the best-known places on the Bogotá savanna.See more ›€0.99 full8 min audio7 languagesAI voice
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Virgilio Barco Public LibraryA library of handmade brick, surrounded by water and parkland, designed by Rogelio Salmona. The architect who worked with Le Corbusier in Paris left details here that almost nobody notices.See more ›€0.99 full5 min audio7 languagesAI voice
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Funnel AlleyAn alley in La Candelaria that narrows with every step. This is where chicha survived: the Muisca maize drink that was persecuted for centuries.See more ›Free6 min audio7 languagesAI voice
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Casa de Nariño (Presidency of the Republic)The seat of Colombia’s presidency, on the very block where Antonio Nariño was born: the man who first translated the Rights of Man into Spanish. Its story begins long before the palace.See more ›€0.99 full6 min audio7 languagesAI voice
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Rafael Pombo HouseRafael Pombo. Colombia's greatest writer of children's stories. Born here on Calle 7 in eighteen thirty-three. But this house holds a secret: his father was a military man who wanted his son to be an engineer. Lino de Pombo was a general, a diplomat, a soldier. He built Rafael's mind in that world. But Rafael's mind had other plans. He wanted to write. His father told him: 'I see you are an engineer without works and without calling for the trade.' Rafael answered: 'Then I will be a poet.' And his father said: 'Very well. A poet you shall be.' He chose words. He wrote for children. Stories of See more ›Free5 min audio7 languagesAI voice
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Cementerio Central de BogotaPresidents, poets and revolutionaries buried just metres apart. Planned in 1791, it is the most honest archive of Colombian history.See more ›Free6 min audio7 languagesAI voice
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Gabriel García Márquez Cultural CenterOn the corner of Calle 11 and Carrera 6, the same plot has been four different things in 250 years. The first was the first place in New Granada where women could study.See more ›Free5 min audio7 languagesAI voice
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Monserrate HillThe sacred hill that watches over Bogotá from more than 3,000 metres up. The Muisca called it “grandmother’s foot” long before there was a sanctuary at the top.See more ›€0.99 full6 min audio7 languagesAI voice
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El Metropolitano Simón Bolívar113 hectares of green in a city short on public space: the largest park in Bogotá. Its design, its concerts and the man it is named after.See more ›Free7 min audio7 languagesAI voice
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