Boyaca Bridge

Boyacá Bridge is a small bridge at the Bogota-Tunja, 110 km east of Bogota and 14 km west of Tunja, in a valley that crosses the river Teatinos. Numerous monuments have been erected nearby to commemorate the historic battle of August 7, 1819, commonly known as the Battle of Boyacá, which granted independence to Colombia.

The bridge was built in the early eighteenth century, being declared a National Monument, Independence Monument in 1920.

The bridge was the epicenter of the fighting and taken to be tactically and crossed by General Francisco de Paula Santander and his army on the offensive against the royalist troops commanded by General Francisco Jiménez, there is defined the Patriot victory.

The historical significance of this monument is recognized nationally and internationally for being the scene where the incident occurred heroic battle, in your environment, then rose up the other monuments that glorify the immortal memory of these fields of freedom

The Battle of Boyacá was the decisive battle that would ensure the success of the Liberty Campaign of New Granada and one of the most important battles of the war of independence in South America. The battle took place on August 7, 1819 in Teatinos river crossing in near the city of Tunja. The battle was the culmination of 77 days of the campaign launched by Simon Bolivar from Venezuela to release the Viceroyalty of New Granada.

Capitolio Nacional

National Capitol building began in 1847, by law enacted by President Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera, is located on the south side of the Plaza de Bolívar. It is the best work of republican period in Colombia and one of the most valuable architectural buildings in Bogota. Whole structure is made of stone masonry and construction took 78 years (1847-1926). In his office were: the author, the Danish architect Thomas Reed, until 1880, that year, and continues the work the Florentine Pietro Cantini until 1908, the Frenchman Gaston Lelarge and end the architect Alberto Manrique Martín.
The building has three floors, a basement and four courtyards reminiscent Tomas Cipriano de Mosquera, Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, Rafael Nuñez and Alvaro Gomez H. Additionally, it has 4 main rooms (Elliptical, Boyaca, Exhibition Hall of the Senate and the Constitution).

The central block is occupied the Oval Room which holds the joint session of Congress (Senate and House) and develop the plenary of the House of Representatives (Lower House), is given possession of the President of the Republic and is performed election of members of the High Courts among others.
Its design is distinguished by its Ionic columns that make up the main gate, its construction was initially commissioned Dutch architect Thomas Reed, who was succeeded by Mariano Sanz de Santamaria Bogota, and from 1881 the Italian Pietro Cantini.

In 1904, President Rafael Reyes continued to work with Cantini, who, by resigning was replaced by French architect Gastón Lelarge, who proposed adding a large central dome, that idea was welcomed, because from the beginning prevailing trend towards the horizontal construction among other things not to compete with the height of the Cathedral.

With the architect Alberto Manrique Martín Bogota building was completed in 1926 under the chairmanship of Pedro Nel Ospina. The ornamentation of the building was made by the Swiss Luigi Ramelli, including masks and cornices that decorate the building.

Niza 9

Niza 9 is one of the thousand neigberhoods in Bogota, unfurtunatli is very dangerous cause, some gangs that are being formed there, but this just happens at night, well, but is different at night cause, in the morning is a beautiful and peaceful place, people working on their little buisines, and walking people with his couple, old people, and good young people.

Would do imagine to live at taht place?

Hundreds of people selling, and also haundres of people buying apartments, in this very wonderful neighberhood, its palced in:

cll 127a # 50-35

Is a nice place where you can life peacefully, but remember just if you do not go at night, cause is then were all that gang and bad pople start todamage the neigberhood....

AS you can see on that picture that spot is the neigberhood we are talking about, is a large an very nice place to life as we said a thousand time but is true cause we have a friend that lives there, and when we go to his house is pretty cool!

Primary Cathedral of Bogotá

The Archbishopric Cathedral of Bogotá is a Roman Catholic cathedral located at the eastern side of Bolívar Square in Bogotá, D.C., Colombia. It is seat of the Archbishop of Bogotá, Cardinal Mon. Pedro Rubiano Saenz.

The Cathedral was built between 1807 and 1823. When the Spanish conquerors officially founded the city of Bogotá (changing the original Indian name of the city: Bacata), they established in 12 huts and a hay-church, that -after being totally built- would take the name of Archbishopric Cathedral of Bogotá. The cathedral holds the remains of Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, founder of Bogota. The cathedral is the biggest in Colombia and one of the biggest ones in South America.

The Cathedral consists of a classical basilica plan in a Latin cross which occupies an area of 5300 square meters, with a nave and two aisles of equal height. It also has an altar and 14 chapels: 7 the south aisle, 6 in the north aisle and a front in the central nave, which are complemented by the choir and two vestries. The lantern and cupola is located at the intersection of the transept with the cruise, supported by four scallops and decorated in a half orange, indigo blue and thirteen tongues of fire. The interior painting of the ships and the chapels is white and vaults have finials in the center.

The cover is divided into two parts. The first consists of eight Doric pilasters that rise to the architrave, frieze and cornice, also of Doric, the second body is of the Ionic order and is decorated by eight pillars. Three sculptures made by Juan de Cabrera adorn the top of each door, the door of the north San Pedro, San Pablo south gate and the Immaculate Conception facade with two angels on both sides to crown her attitude, over the latter tops the facade adorned with an isosceles triangle meshed, moldings of the Ionic order and upon it a cross double pontificates of arms, beneath the statue, on the lintel of the door reads a white marble slab the inscription: " Under the title sponsorship of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady, religious Santafé prosper. MDCCCXIV year. Fray Domingo de Petrés architect, cappuccino.. " The towers, built after the earthquake of 1827 measured 42 meters high and are based on the higher ledge, each consists of three bodies with openings for the bells, the south tower is dedicated to Santa Barbara, while the north tower San Emigdio is dedicated to a clock. The main door, made in the sixteenth century is 7.20 meters high by 3.60 wide, is adorned by two independent pillars in the form of fluted columns of the Ionic order, whose capitals ending in the cornice of the facade, and has knockers, bolts, studs and cast bronze hardware and five salamanders Spanish solvi. The side doors measuring 5.60 meters high by 2.80 wide. The atrium is 110 meters long and was built between 1631 and 1664 in 1815 was extended to the Capilla del Sagrario, in 1842, tiled and extiendió to the south edge of the square and in 1913 was rounded angle the corner to facilitate rotation of the tram for the race seventh.

(description taken out from: http://catedraldebogota.org/)

Monuments

As if we wanted to immortalize the events and personalities that have marked the history of the city and the country, over time have arisen in various city buildings and images that somehow remind us of our origins and struggles as an American, is this here, you may know the location and legend of the most important cultural heritages in Bogota.

More than architectural bronze plated and supported by stone structures, these 27 capital's memory representations are symbols of the city that we go back in time to understand the contributions of social, economic and political character immortal memory of the country as Liberator Simon Bolivar and the independence heroine Policarpa Salavarrieta, better known as 'La Pola'.

Each of these representations materials remain in spaces and historic places equal importance to the capital, as is the Plaza de Bolívar, the Park of Journalists, the Piazzetta del Rosario National Park and Parque Santander, among others.

According to the latest report from the District Department of Planning (SDP) and the District Institute of Cultural Heritage (IDPC) most of these works of art are located in the towns of:

• La Candelaria
• Chapinero
• Usaquén

In this section you will know the title or name of the monument, author, date of completion of the work, location, processing technique, type of space it occupies town where, if it has been moved and what were the Places you've traveled.

Here you will find 27 of the 51 schedules established by the SDP with all this information. This year the District Department of Planning anticipates further review of the first inventory to include 414 other monuments.

Procinal

Its not the best cinema but not the worst, yeah, maybe there are betters cinemas but tihs one has the sepecial thing, and... is that very cheap, in differnce, with, cinemark and cine colombia, the only trouble this cinema may have is that, is situated in very, alone and far malls, like Bulevar, and Bima, but it still a good deal to go there, cause as we said al ready is pretty cheap.

This cinema maybe kind of old, cause just now like 2 weeks ago, they put 3D, that is a tecnology that, other big cinema companies, like cine colombia and cinemark, all ready have, like a year and a half ago!

An other bad thing is taht is not to comrfortable, but as we all ready said is very cheap....
That the great thing just pretty cheap.

Virgilio Barco

The Birgilio Barco library is one of the most important and recognized library at Bogota, this library is one of the most visit because is with a very good localization, the library is located between many parks and ´laces for entraining also is visited from people from many near places like from Teusaquillo, Chapinero, Engativa. This library is also no so new because is from the year2001 that was the year when the library was fundated, this library has also especialized places for the different people that goes there and has different places for the different types for person they have books for bays, and also have novels and many other types of books that are cualified for the differnt likes of the people it have some enternet rooms conference rooms and other rooms that are for the people ore coperatives that need to collect many people for a meeting or something they can use that spaces because is a pulic library were anyone can enters because anyone can used any book or can use any place from there without any cost because the state pay al the costs.