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The Family Friendly route in Bogotá includes 8 curated stops.

How long does the Family Friendly tour in Bogotá take?

The Family Friendly walking tour in Bogotá takes approximately 4 hours at a leisurely pace.

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🇨🇴 Bogotá, Colombia

Family Friendly in Bogotá

Easy-access places suitable for mixed-age groups. Explore 8 curated stops in Bogotá, including Gold Museum, Botero Museum, and Church of San Francisco . Highlights include Gold Museum, rated 4.6/5 by 14,679 visitors.

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Gold Museum

The Museum of Gold (Spanish: El Museo del Oro) is a museum located in Bogotá, Colombia. It is one of the most visited touristic highlights in the country. The museum receives around 500,000 tourists per year. The museum displays a selection of pre-Columbian gold and other metal alloys, such as Tumbaga, and contains the largest collection of gold artifacts in the world in its exhibition rooms on the second and third floors. Together with pottery, stone, shell, wood and textile objects, these items, made of a– to indigenous cultures – sacred metal, testify to the life and thought of the different societies which lived in present-day Colombia before the Spanish conquest of the Americas. In 1934, the Bank of the Republic began helping to protect the archaeological patrimony of Colombia. The object known as Poporo Quimbaya was the first one in a collection. It has been on exhibition for 70 years. The Museum is today administered by Banrepcultural. The museum houses the famous Muisca golden raft found in Pasca in 1969, that represents the ceremony of the new zipa (ruler) of Bacatá, the basis for the El Dorado myth. The heir to the chieftaincy assumed power with a great offering to the gods. In this representation he is seen standing at the centre of a raft, surrounded by the principal chieftains, all of them adorned with gold and feathers. After a decade of work, the museum was expanded and renovated in October 2008. With the renovation, the museum organized the permanent exhibition in five rooms with archaeological objects and an interactive room. It also added an auditorium, some temporary exhibitions rooms, a cafe, a restaurant, and a souvenir store.

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Botero Museum

The Botero Museum also known as Museo Botero is a museum located in Bogotá. It houses one of Latin America's most important international art collections. It sees 500,000 visitors annually, around 1,000 daily, and of those 2,000 students per month. Being in La Candelaria neighborhood of Bogotá, the museum is within close proximity to other important landmarks like the Luis Ángel Arango Library and the Gold Museum of Bogotá. In the year of 2000 the Colombian artist Fernando Botero donated 208 art pieces, 123 of his own making and 85 of other international artists, to the Bank of the Republic. The Museum is administered by Banrepcultural. With this collection, the Botero Museum was founded in the neighborhood of La Candelaria, the historic center of Bogotá, in a colonial mansion that was acquired by the Bank of the Republic and made suitable to house the art collection by Fernando Botero himself. Since November 1, 2000, the museum has been open to the public free of charge. The museum consists 123 works of Fernando Botero and 85 of other artists for a total of 208 works of art. Highlights of the permanent collection include works by Balthus, Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Sonia Delaunay, Claude Monet and Henri Matisse.

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Church of San Francisco

The church of San Francisco is a religious temple of Catholic worship under the invocation of San Francisco de Asís of the city of Bogotá, in Colombia. It is located in the Veracruz neighborhood, on Avenida Jiménez with the Seventh race, where it constitutes a group composed by the church of La Tercera and La Veracruz. It was built between 1550 and 1595 on the land donated by Archbishop Juan de los Barrios to the Franciscan brothers, on the right bank of the Vicachá River, then called the San Francisco River. The original construction had an extension in 1611 and in 1623 the main altarpiece was built. In recent years the church was devoid of its exterior target and its decks were altered to the point that the only surviving historical documents of the original temple are the main facade, the tower and the presbytery. The last restoration of the temple was carried out between 1988 and 1990.

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Casa de Moneda

The Casa de Moneda de Colombia (Spanish for Colombian mint) is a Colombian currency museum based in the city of Bogotá. It was founded in 1621 as the mint ('casa de moneda' translates as 'mint'). The current mint is known simply as the Fábrica de Moneda (coin factory). Alonso Turrillo de Yebra arrived in 1621 with royal ordinances that accredited him to create the first Mint in the New Kingdom of Granada, and for this, he rented a low house in the La Candelaria neighborhood of present-day Bogotá to begin the work of reprimand in which, in an artisanal way, the first gold machines of America, known as doubloons, were elaborated among others. You can also find variety in its class or currency types. Almost half a century later, during the reign of Ferdinand VI, the House expands to house the new machines and the production is mechanized to produce circular pieces and better invoices. In 1752, Don Juan Espinosa de los Monteros and Bilbao arrived in Santafé from Seville to serve as faithful of the balance, just as he had done so far in the Royal Mint of Seville. In 1756 Viceroy Solis reopened the House, as can be read in the frieze of its stone cover. The physical structure of the house expands and transforms through three hundred and fifty years into several opportunities. Since the seventies of the twentieth century, recovery works of their original architectural features culminating in 1982 were carried out in the colonial cloister. The numismatic sample illustrates several aspects that are directly related to the currency and history of the property and its various architectural interventions. At the Mint, the visitor will be able to permanently find the exhibitions of the art and numismatic collections of the Banco de la República, and several temporary exhibition halls. The mint was declared a National Monument of Colombia by decree 1584 of August 11, 1975.

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Santander Park

Santander Park is an urban park located in the center of Bogotá, at the intersection of the Seventh race with Sixteen Street. Before the Republic it was called San Francisco Park because it is next to the convent and church of the same name. Previously it was known as the square of herbs. It is one of the most traditional places in the city, being even cited by some sources as its place of foundation. It stands out for its statue of Francisco de Paula Santander, its fountain and its trees. Its southeast side faces the Environmental Axis. The Gold Museum and the Avianca building are assimilated within its framework. The place was originally called Plaza de las Hierbas (or de las Yerbas) because the regional market was found there, whose beginnings go back to times before the conquest of the continent.

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San Francisco Palace

The San Francisco Palace is a neoclassical building designed by the French architect Gastón Lelarge in 1917. It is located between the Seventh and Eighth races, on Jiménez Environmental Axis Avenue in the town of Santa Fe in Bogotá. It is located, right next to the San Francisco Church, in front of the Henry Faux and Pedro A. López buildings and diagonally to the El Tiempo building, on the Seventh race. The building replaced the old cloister attached to the church of San Francisco. In its beginnings it housed the Governorate of Cundinamarca. It was declared a national monument in 1984. In 1557, Brother Juan de los Barrios, the first archbishop of Bogotá, moved his Franciscan brothers to some houses located in the western neighborhood of Las Nieves, next to the San Francisco River, where they built the church of San Francisco. On the grounds where the current palace was built was the 17th-century convent of the Purification of Our Lady, which included three claustrated courtyards and an orchard. It stretched between the Seventh and Eighth races, and Jiménez Avenue and Sixteenth Street.

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Palacio de San Carlos

The San Carlos Palace (Spanish: Palacio de San Carlos; previously Colegio Seminario de San Bartolomé), is a 16th-century Neoclassical mansion in Bogotá. The historic building has been the site of various political, social and academic events. Since December 1993, it has been home to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Palace of San Carlos The history of the building goes back to the end of the 16th century when it was built by Archdeacon Francisco Porras Mejia, in 1585. At the time Santa Fe de Bogotá was the capital of New Kingdom of Granada, part of the Viceroyalty of Peru. It was occupied by the archdeacon's family until 1605 when it was sold to Archbishop Bartolomé Lobo Guerrero who used it as a Jesuit seminary known as the Colegio Seminario de San Bartolomé. In 1739, the first printing press of Sante Fe was also established here. In 1767, after the Jesuits were expelled from New Granada by Francisco Antonio Moreno y Escandón, acting on orders from King Carlos III, it became the Royal Library of Santa Fe and served as barracks for the Presidential Guard. From 1827 to 1908 the palace was the official residence of the President of Colombia. Then President Rafael Reyes Prieto moved out to the Palace of Nariño where he lived till 1954. From 1954 it again became the residence of General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla and his successors till 1980. In 1980 after the Palace of Nariño was inaugurated as the presidential residence, the Palace of San Carlos was converted to house the Ministry of Foreign Affairs which it still accommodates today. Wall plaque commemorating the assassination attempt on Simon Bolivar. The palace was also the scene of an assassination attempt on Simon Bolivar in 1828. He was attacked when a group of conspirators attempted to assassinate him while he was taking a bath and he escaped through the window with soap still covering his body. His mistress, Manuela Sáenz Aizpuru, who tipped him off and saved him came to be known among Bogotans as 'the liberator of the liberator'. The event became known as the Noche Septembrina (English: September's Night), and it is referenced in Latin in a plaque conspicuously fixed on the wall next to the window through which he escaped. In 1937, properties next to the palace were acquired on the eastern side. The main entrance was added along with a triple storied building to accommodate the offices of the Ministry. Built by the Italian architect Pietro Cantini, the new façade stands close to two other historic buildings on Calle del Coliseo (Calle 10): the birthplace of the poet Rafael Pombo and the Christopher Columbus Theatre. On 11 August 1975, the San Carlos Palace was declared a National Monument.

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Iglesia de Santa Clara

The Santa Clara Museum occupies the space of the former temple of the Royal Convent of Santa Clara, built in 1647. It is located in the Historic Center of Bogotá, in race 8 No. 8-91. It has a wide collection of paintings and sculptures from the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The building is considered one of the most representative samples of Baroque architecture and decoration of the 17th and 18th centuries in Bogotá. This museum is an entity of the Ministry of Culture. The museum, housed in one of the temples that belonged to the female religious communities of the colonial period, not only has a large colonial collection that features works by Gregorio Vásquez de Arce and Ceballos, Gaspar and Baltazar de Figueroa and Agustín García Zorro de Useche among others, it also has samples of mural paintings scattered in the choirs, the presbytery, the toral arch and the sacristy, with zoomorphic, phytomorphic motifs and some representations of saints and angels. Likewise, the museum has hosted several exhibitions of contemporary art, with which it seeks to build relationships between artistic expression and current problems, and the ornament and culture typical of the colonial period.

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