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Presidential House
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Usaquén
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T
he capital of Colombia understands, as no other
A colloquy between stone and memory emerges before
region of the world, what the word contemplation
the eyes of the passersby. If on a certain block they
entails. Thanks to this, people can fantasize under
encounter the former National Museum, feeling the
the mahogany gaze of mountains that seem to awaken
impenetrable presence of accumulated imagination in the
the artist in every observer, the music of the wind and
hundreds of volumes, a few blocks away it is easy to find
rain, midday suns or the streets that following beautiful
a modern shopping center in the style of a populous and
customs or stone calligraphy have sluggishly melded
desirable garden of delights. If we finish our walk through
together. This is the sum of this city, once called with
a stately old neighborhood with vestiges of yesteryear (La
magnified rhetoric “The South American Athens.”
Candelaria, Teusaquillo, Quinta Camacho), we can suddenly find ourselves twenty-something stories high in a glass
As a person who shows to others its vast collection of
building.
masks, delicate ornaments and lovely niceties, Bogotá contains in its arteries an infinite number of worlds,
Bogotá is a feast of images, a sinuous dance of past
sensibilities, possibilities, ways of being, of living and
epochs, a huge latency able to reinvent the personal
dying. Perhaps that is the reason behind the Bogota
history of everyone walking through it and who may, often,
times: the yearned yesterday, the bustling today and the
stay there forever. Welcome to this elevated city, situated
promising tomorrow harmonize together and present a
9,000 feet above sea level, where a visitor may experience
united front within its weary coordinates.
the weather of the four seasons in just one day. Esta es Bogotá ·
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