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The Nightlife route in Bogotá includes 12 curated stops.

How long does the Nightlife tour in Bogotá take?

The Nightlife walking tour in Bogotá takes approximately 6 hours at a leisurely pace.

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🇨🇴 Bogotá, Colombia

Nightlife in Bogotá

Evening districts, bars, and lively after-dark streets. Explore 12 curated stops in Bogotá, including Gold Museum, Botero Museum, and Bolívar Square. 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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Bolívar Square

The Bolívar Square (Spanish: Plaza de Bolívar or Plaza Bolívar) is the main of Bogotá. The square, previously called Plaza Mayor until 1821 and Plaza de la Constitución, is located in the heart of the historical area of the city and hosts a statue of Simón Bolívar, sculpted in 1846 by the Italian Pietro Tenerani, which was the first public monument in the city. The history of Bolívar Square dates back to the pre-Columbian era, when the site was part of the Muisca Confederation. The first building on the square, a primitive cathedral, was constructed in 1539, a year after the foundation of the Colombian capital. During the Spanish colonial period, Bolívar Square was the stage for circus acts, public markets and bullfights. The square is surrounded by historical buildings; the Palace of Justice is located on the northern edge and the National Capitol borders the square in the south. The Primary Cathedral of Bogotá and the Liévano Palace, seat of the mayor of Bogotá, are situated on the eastern and western side respectively. Bolívar Square is a main tourist attraction in La Candelaria of Bogotá and the site for various manifestations and protests.

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Capitolio Nacional

The National Capitol of Colombia is the seat of the National Congress, the highest legislative body of the Republic of Colombia. The capitol was originally designed by Thomas Reed at the request of President Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera, it was built between 1848 and 1926 and various architects were in charge. It is one of the most representative constructions of republican and neoclassical architecture in the city. The National Capitol of Colombia was declared a National Monument by decree 1584 of August 11, 1975. The main facade is located on the south side of the Plaza de Bolívar and is made up of two symmetrical lateral bodies and a transparent central body like a portico, consisting of a six-row colonnade of three Ionic-style columns that have two spans in each of its ends, one on top of the other and framed by two protruding bulbs supported by two terraced pilasters. The building is crowned horizontally with a entablamiento that finishes in a cornice with four taps and a balustrade in which vases and palmetas are interspersed. The drainage system at the height of the cornice is adorned with gargoyles with animal heads. In 1938, Ignacio Gómez Jaramillo painted two murals for the Capitolio Nacional in Bogotá. In 1947 for the Inter American Conference, Santiago Martínez Delgado painted a majestic mural under commission of the then director of the OEA, Alberto Lleras Camargo and Conference organizer Laureano Gómez, two men who later became Presidents of Colombia. This mural of the Elliptic chamber National Congress Building, made in the fresco style, represents Bolivar and Santander exiting the Cucuta congress during the creation of the Great Colombia. The mural is considered the most important fresco in the country and the artist's main masterpiece.

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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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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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Luis Ángel Arango Library

Luis Ángel Arango Library, is a public library located in Bogotá. It was founded in 1958 as a small library with a few books on economics. Today its collection has grown to the point where it has become the country's premier library and has come to be considered to be the most important public library in Latin America. It has over 1.1 million books and 1900 reading places; it received 6.7 million visitors in 2008. It is currently under the administration of Banrepcultural. Books and documents on the following subjects can be found: music, geography, social sciences, economics, arts and humanities, the constitution, rare books and manuscripts, science and technology, and Luis López de Mesa newspaper archives. They also provide audio-visual material. In addition, there is a Concert Hall, reprography service, a cafeteria and parking facilities. The Botero Museum is part of the library. The main entrance features an Athena or Minerva statue. There is also a bookstore in the first floor of the library. The bookstore specializes in books about Colombia, scientific magazines, and literature related to Colombia and its values. The library is named after the lawyer and business man Dr. Luis Angel Arango, who occupied the general manager position of the 'Banco de la Republica' in Colombia, and who was an advocate for culture and literature. The library's architects have included Esguerra Saenz Urdaneta Samper.

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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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Museo de Arte Colonial

The Colonial Museum of Bogotá ( Colombia ) was inaugurated on August 6, 1942 under the background of the President of the Republic Eduardo Santos Montejo and his education minister Germán Arciniegas. Its headquarters is the former Casa de las Aulas, a 17th-century building that was the headquarters of the Maximum Society of the Society of Jesus, now Javeriana University and Colegio Mayor de San Bartolomé, in Bogotá. The pieces initially exhibited in the Colonial Museum came mostly from the private collections owned by Bogota's high society in the first half of the 20th century. These collections had been formed due to the process of confiscation of ecclesiastical goods initiated by Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera around 1861. The paintings expropriated from the Church were handed over to individuals and some of these in turn were given to different museums as a donation. These initial collections have been gradually complemented by new works received by donation or acquired. Currently the museum has 1577 pieces among which you can find easel painting, textiles, sculpture, furniture, silverware, numismatics, prints and manuscripts. It should be noted that the museum houses the largest existing collection of works by the neo-Granada colonial painter Gregorio Vásquez de Arce and Ceballos, which includes easel painting and a complete series of the drawings attributed to it.

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Museo del Siglo XIX

El Museo del Siglo XIX de Bogotá (Colombia), es un museo perdido, que estaba ubicado en el centro histórico de la ciudad, en La Candelaria, a un costado del Palacio de Nariño, sede del gobierno de Colombia. Desde 1980, año de su fundación, hasta su cierre en el año 2011, gracias a la gestión del Fondo Cultural Cafetero de Bancafé, su principal mecenas, el Museo del Siglo XIX reunió una colección de cerca de 2500 piezas que abarcaban no sólo las artes (pintura, escultura, dibujo y grabado) desarrolladas en Colombia durante el siglo XIX, sino también elementos de carácter histórico y artes decorativas que documentaban el estilo de vida de la entonces incipiente población de Santa Fe. Reunió una colección de cerca de 2500 piezas artísticas (pintura, escultura, dibujo y grabado) históricas y decorativas desarrolladas en Colombia durante el siglo XIX que permitía al visitante la posibilidad de admirar salones del siglo XIX donde se encontraban recintos múltiples, lámparas, cortinas, alfombras que reproducen ambientes y escenarios de otro tiempo.

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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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