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Bogotá is Colombia's beating heart, an engaging and vibrant capital cradled by chilly Andean peaks and steeped in sophisticated urban cool.
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µþ´Ç²µ´Ç³Ùá's most famous museum and one of the most fascinating in South America, the Gold Museum contains more than 55,000 pieces of gold and other materials…
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Even if you've never heard of Fernando Botero, you'll probably recognize some of his highly distinctive paintings of oversized (read: chubby) characters,…
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Built between 1557 and 1621, the Church of San Francisco is µþ´Ç²µ´Ç³Ùá's oldest surviving church. In the atmospherically dark interior, with its extravagant…
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The usual place to start discovering µþ´Ç²µ´Ç³Ùá is the giant concrete Plaza de BolÃvar, the heart of the original town. What it lacks in green foliage it…
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Most of Banco de la República's permanent art collection, which features 800 pieces by 250 different artists spread over 16 exhibition halls at two…
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On the south side of Plaza de BolÃvar, beyond the Capitolio Nacional and reached via Carreras 8 or 7, this is Colombia's neoclassical presidential…
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Housed in the expansive, Greek-cross-shaped building called El Panóptico (designed as a prison by English architect Thomas Reed in 1874), the Museo…
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One of µþ´Ç²µ´Ç³Ùá's most richly decorated churches, the Santa Clara is also its oldest (along with Iglesia de San Francisco). Deconsecrated in 1968, it was…
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Day Trips
Beyond µþ´Ç²µ´Ç³Ùá you'll find a wide variety of easy day trips that get you out into nature - with hiking, rock climbing and a surprising theme park.
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The traffic in µþ´Ç²µ´Ç³Ùá may be notorious but there are ways to avoid it. Here's how to navigate the Colombian capital with zero stress.
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µþ´Ç²µ´Ç³Ùá beckons to budget-friendly travelers. Here are nine fabulous things to do in the Colombian capital that won’t cost you a single peso.
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