BogotoursAudio guides in Bogota

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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 ›Free8-min audio7 languages
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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 ›Free5-min audio7 languages
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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 languages
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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 ›Free6-min audio7 languages
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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 languages
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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 languages
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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 languages
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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 ›Free6-min audio7 languages
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Ermita de San Miguel and Plaza del Chorro de QuevedoThe little square where, so the story goes, Bogotá was born. Very pretty and largely invented: knowing what is real and what isn’t makes it even more interesting.See more ›Free7-min audio7 languages
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Church of Las NievesOne of Bogotá’s oldest churches, begun in 1568 on what was then the northern edge of the city. It was the people’s church, far from the centre of power.See more ›Free5-min audio7 languages
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San Diego ChurchA 17th-century church between eight-lane avenues and the Hotel Tequendama. It survived four centuries of Bogotá, though it lost more than half of its land.See more ›Free4-min audio7 languages
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Jardín Botánico José Celestino MutisOne of South America’s most remarkable botanical gardens, right in the middle of Bogotá. It is named after José Celestino Mutis, the scientist who undertook the greatest inventory of American nature.See more ›Free5-min audio7 languages
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La MacarenaA neighbourhood in the shadow of the bullring, between the elite and the working class. That in-between position made it one of the most characterful corners of Bogotá.See more ›Free4-min audio7 languages
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La Puerta FalsaIn the heart of Bogotá, on a corner of the cathedral, there exists a restaurant so old that locals know it by heart. the false door la puerta falsa . Tamales wrapped in plantain leaves, steaming ajiaco, fried delicacies that have fed generations. But few know the truth hidden in its walls. Eighteen sixteen. Josefa Caicedo—a devout woman. She prepares refreshments for the feast at the cathedral, but only for those she chose to serve. The priest said she had no right to decide. She knew she deserved that right. So she opened her own door. Her husband's name on the papers—because women had no rigSee more ›€1 · full audio5-min audio7 languages
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Mercado de PaloquemaoThe wholesale market where Bogotá buys its fruit from before dawn. Its name, legend has it, comes from a tree that was burned during the Bogotazo.See more ›Free4-min audio7 languages
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Mirador de La CaleraFrom the mountains to the east, all of Bogotá fits into a single glance: almost eight million people at your feet. At night, the view changes completely.See more ›Free4-min audio7 languages
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Colpatria Tower Viewpoint196 metres and 50 floors: for decades, the tallest building in Bogotá. From its viewpoint the city looks different, and at night its coloured lights shine over it.See more ›Free8-min audio7 languages
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Botero MuseumA colonial mansion in La Candelaria holding one of the largest gifts an artist has made to his country: works by Botero and from his collection, including Picasso, Monet and Dalí. And entry is free.See more ›Free4-min audio7 languages
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Museum of Modern Art of BogotáThe museum Marta Traba founded to convince Colombia that modern art mattered. The building is by Rogelio Salmona, the same architect as the Virgilio Barco Library.See more ›Free5-min audio7 languages
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Museum of IndependenceThe white house with a green balcony on the corner of Plaza de Bolívar where, on 20 July 1810, a borrowed flower vase sparked Colombia’s independence. What happened that day is not quite what the official story says.See more ›Free8-min audio7 languages
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