Neighborhoods

To begin knowing our beautiful city Bogota, we have to know more about it's neighborhoods.

In each neigborhood we will show you , you are going to see, how Bogota, has evolutioned and you are going to began knowing a little bit about the people, living in our beautiful city... BOGOTA.

In this section we are going to cover:

• La Candelaria.
• El Campin.
• La Calera.
• La Zona Rosa..
• Parque de la 93.

La Candelaria:

La candelaria is the oldest neighborhood of Bogota. It can be called the historical center of Bogota. La Candelaria is located between Calle 7 and Avenida Jimenez de Quesada, and between Carreras 1 and 15. You have to be really careful with everything, as it is a historical place everything is very important and beautiful in this place... La candelaria is very famous because of its colonial houses, This area contains many places worth visiting, including Casa de Poesía Silva , the Palacio de San Carlos , the Casa del Marques de San Jorge , the Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango , the Teatro Colón , and the churches La Candelaria , San Ignacio and Nuestra Señora del Carmen . When you visit this place you would feel like you were in the epoch of the colony, because, some of the streets in la Candelaria are made of rocks, like in the old times, and the houses look really beautiful because they are colonial houses.
Some people say that this houses might have some spirits in them, because they are really old and many different families from different epochs have lived in them. So don`t think it twice and if you visit Bogota don't forget to visit this beautiful and important neighborhood that with it's streets, houses can tell you lots of things about our beautiful city.

El Campin:

El Campin is situated in Avenida Ciudad de Quito, between Calles 53 and 63, This neighborhood receives it's name because of the Campin stadium and coliseum. El campin is a very important neighborhood from Bogota, because, here is situated the stadium "El Campin" which is the biggest stadium in Bogota, here occur the most important soccer matches between different teams. In the coliseum happen many of the most important concerts here in Bogota, In the coliseum have been Demi Lovato, Korn, Gustavo Cerati, Limp Bizkit, among others... Enjoy from different concerts and soccer matches in our coliseum and stadium, we're waiting for you...

La Calera:

This beautiful neighborhood Has the most beautiful discotheques, and restaurants,peolpe like to visit this place, most of the "chivas" go to celebrate in this beautiful neighborhood... From La Calera you can see some spectacular views of Bogota, by day and also by night... If you want to  do exercise and you like to ride a bike you can go on the weekends uphill in La Calera.

La Zona Rosa:

La Zona Rosa is mostly known because of it's nightlife, By the day many people like to shop in the malls that are in La Zona Rosa... some of them could be, Andino, El retiro, Atlantis... People also like to go to the restaurants situated in this neighborhood,It is one of the most expensice neighborhoods in Bogota, It can be called like the high class of Bogota.

Videos and Links (:

In this article of the magazine, we are going to expose you all the beauty of some theaters, libraries and museums of bogota. Here you will find interesting videos and some other links about those wonderfull places.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Tw_RrjOClo 

This is a video about the museums, you will enjoy watching it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68phMu3Z-hk

This is a video about the beautiful libraries in bogota.

Theatres in bogota!! (:

Have you been in Cristóbal Colón Theater?

Lets talk about this wonderful place. Cristóbal Colón Theater , it  is a place for art and musical presentations. It is one of the most beautiful theatres in bogota an  in our continent. Many cultural activities are done here .

 Its name is in honor to Cristobal Colon because of the discovery of America. After visiting this place I could see that is was really amazing, You just need to get into it and see all the wonderful things it has for you. This theatre is not only one of the oldest of Bogota, But it is really elegant and many important events were done here. Its rooms have a really colonial style, and it is a huge prove of our culture and architectonic labor.

 Lets go to the Faenza theatre! :)

When I visited this wonderful pace I learned that It is the oldest theatre of films showing in Bogotá. It got its name because it was built inside a factory installations (called Faenza). I could see that the building has a beautiful  influence, of XIX century.

It was inaugurated in 1924, and then it turned into an important cultural place of the capital. Later it was declared National Monument. I agree this is not only a simple theatre, this is sincerely one of the most beautiful and colonial buildings I've ever seen. You must visit it and enjoy! 

Visit the Camarín del Carmen Theater!

Lets learn about this beautiful piece of Bogotá. It is in the centre of Bogotá.I learned, by visitng it that It was built in 1655 and it is a building that had different functions, nowadays the Camarín is used as theater room. It is really big and nice. The perfomances done there are really special, because its rooms are just beautiful, I had a great experience visiting it and I enjoyed it a lot!

There are many places in the city where you could have a very pleasant and quite evening.
If you enjoy theater, shows, ballet, opera, classical music or if you want to watch a good movie, this is a guide of the main places you would like to attend. Visit this wonderful theatres :)

Libraries!! (:

Visit The Luis Angel Arango's Library (:

In this article we are going to talk about the Luis Ángel Arango Library, A nice place to visit, in which you can enjoy reading, watching the museum paintings and eating at its wonderful cafeteria, between other things.  When I was there I learned that It is a public library located in This big city,Bogotá. It was founded in 1923. it has come to be considered to be the most important public library in Latin America.  In addition, there is a Concert Hall, reprography service, a cafeteria and parking lot. If you go there you must visit the The Botero Museum that is part of the library. The main entrance has  really beautiful statue.

There is also a bookstore in the first floor of the library.

You must visit this wonderful place, it is perfect if you want to know information about bogotá. 

 

 

 Lets take a look to Virgilio's Barco Library!

Have you ever seen a library like this one?, I don’t think so, you must know about it. When I went there I could notice that This library is located at the centre of Bogotá, Its strange but really amazing architecture  makes the library does not need artificial light during the day.
The main room has three levels, one for reading, reading rooms, video library, sound library, digital catalogs, Internet and multimedia. Its rooms are just so nice, and it also has An auditorium, music room, exhibition and information on Bogotá. I enjoyed being at the children's room, That has a toy library and workshops, puppet theater.

Besides all of that also it has an outside caffe with an spectacular water mirror, Its food and caffe is really delicious. I spend time in the green zones to relax, Its offer a very interesting option for visitors, because count with full equipment of books and Cumputers.

This library is gorgeous; you must visit it if you come to Bogotá!

Have you ever visited The Julio Mario Santo Domingo Library? :) 

 

Lets talk in this article a little be about this wonderful place. Visiting this library was just amazing, I learned that The Julio Mario Santo Domingo Library, is located in The Parque San José de Bavaria, is not only one of the largest and most modern of the network of libraries of Bogotá, but also of Latin America. It is really close to the school, and it makes the neighbour hood look really  elegant. Its emphasis is in art, books, music and audiovisual material. 

This library offers IT possibilities for people with auditive and visual disabilities, besides that it is really huge, I enjoyed so much visiting it, and it is so full of history and information I was happy to lern. If you come to this wonderful city, you must visit it and ejoy like me.

Backstage!

In this section we will explain you the process that we passed through to make this blog. We went to all the places that you saw on the different articles. We couldn't upload videos because in the computer we were using it was not possible to download videos but here we will write above  a link in which you can find interesting videos about Bogota. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BmsJ2uE7Bo

On the other hand we could go to the different restaurants and take different pictures that show the variety of restaurants, museums, monuments, malls, and different places we went!

Hope you enjoy it alot!

Links

All along the blog we have been writing about Bogota, all of Bogota's aspects. We dont mean to bore you so that's why we did not wrote that much, but you can search for more information in the safe links and webpages we will write above:

http://wikitravel.org/en/Bogot%C3%A1

http://pages.infinit.net/colombia/bogota/

http://www.ladatco.com/COL%20Bogota.htm

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/interesting-facts-about-colombia.html
http://www.unicentrobogota.com/

Plaza Mayor

Plaza Mayor is a very beautiful and big mall. It is ubicated in Chia, it is one of the newest malls of chia. It has many restaurants, places for kids to play with some game consoles, a gym, beautiful and very comfortable cinemas, and more...


It is a very beutiful and sofisticated mall, here you can find some boutiques, were you can buy any type of clothes you want, from male clothes, to female clothes, girls and boys clothes...


Plaza Mayor has also blockbuster, in which you can find any type of movie you want...


So don't think it twice Plaza Mayor is a very beautiful mall for you to visit

My Experience: In Plaza Mayor I can go to play in some rooms they have lots of videogames consoles, I have lots of fun with my family and friends in this place, it has some delicious restaurants, I can go to get some movies in blockbuster, I guess this is one of my favorite malls.

Bogota's Monuments

   

Bogota's history is an extense bunch of events, and around Bogota, there are many monuments that remember each individual of the city, where we come from, basically the monuments are based on Bogota's history, they are important people that influenced and make part of Bogota's History.

We invite you to take a look to the different monuments all over the city, it will help you very much to understand Bogota's and Colombias whole culture.