COLOMBIAN FOOD

In Colombia is very traditional to find this kind of places, this are restaurant called it "Piqueteaderos".

In this restaurant you cant eat all kind o dishes of the Colombian culinary.

Some of this dishes are :


Morcilla
Gallina
Chunchullo
among others


This restaurant is located in the way up of the church of Monseratte in Bogota.

The people who works in this piqueteaderos are very kind and the service is like we say here "like if you were at home".

The taste of this plates are unique.


and if you like to know the real Colombian people this is the place to do it.

COLOMBIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY

This house was built by the marshal Hernán Venegas Carrillo, located in the Northwest corner of Bolívar's Square in Bogotá,it is also known as the House of the Vase (La Casa del Florero) and is the main character of the events that gave place to the colombia independence, well-known with the name of independence scream (Grito de independencia).

In that then the house was a place where several trade establishments existed, one of these trade establishments belonged to José Gonzales Llorente.

The history says that the facts happened the day July 20,1810, when Luis Rubio with a group of citizens called in that time Creoles "Criollos" (Children of Spaniards born in America) calls led by Francisco and Antonio Morales, came closer to the establishment of the Spanish José Gonzales Llorente located in this place to request in loan a vase to offer a welcome with reason regal commissioner's visit and Captain of Frigate of the Real Armada Don Antonio Villavicencio to the city of Bogotá, which would be carried out at August first.

Before the negative of Jose Gonzales Llorente a situation of tension was generated that ended up altering the population that was in the Bolivar square. This situation woke up the ideal independentistas of the Creoles who showed against the Spanish government.

The later facts unchained the establishment of the Creole representation in Government's Supreme Meeting presided over by the Viceroy Antonio José Amar and Borbón, by means of the open summoned town council.

In July 26,1810 was edited and signed another records in which the absolute freedom of the Supreme Meeting is declared with relationship to the Council of Regency of Spain and it is deposed and captured the Viceroy Antonio José Amar and Borbón.

Since 1960 it is known as July´s 20 House Museum is distributed in nine exhibition living rooms for the visitors: the room of the vase, the room of the records of the independence, the room of eminent persons, the room of the Supreme Meeting, the room of Bogotá, Antonio Nariño's room , the room of the heroines, the Simón Bolívar and Francisco de Paula Santander room and the room of the Oratory.

In the main room it is exposed Gonzales Llorente´s vase and some objects related with the independence of Colombia. The oldest works that can be are those that are related with the Botanical Expedition.

In the records room it can be found the records of the independence of Colombia, the table were the Colombian independence was signed, the score of the Colombian national Hymn written by Rafael Núñez and Oreste Sindici (music), and a collection of the political national constitutions during that history.


Schedule : Tuesday to Saturday 9:00 a.m/4:14 p.m
Sundays 10:00 am/3:15 p.m

Address : Calle 11 N 6-94

Tel : (0571) 3344150

PALACE OF JUSTICE

In the north side of the Bolivar Square it´s located the palace of justice, place whose events make primordial part of the colombia history.

The first Palace of Justice that existed in Colombia began operations among the year 1920 at 1930. It was designed by the architect Pablo de la Cruz inspired by the neoclassical tendencies. It was built on the eleven street with six career, where at the moment a parking lot works.

The palace was one of the first buildings set on fire during the "Bogotazo",(April 9 1948), date that coincides with the birth of the guerrilla movement M-19.

Second Palacio of Justice appeared in the sixties and it was designed for the architect Roberto Londoño, with a modernist style although with some vestiges of neoclassical tendencies. The building was made in stone between 11 and 12 street and between the careers 7 and 8, where the current one is located.

The Second Palace of Justice set on fire during the events of november 6/1985, after the armed taking of M-19 guerrilla .

It is the place where judges and magistrates of the republic exercise judicial functions, in order of preserving the rights of the citizens.

Schedule : Monday to Friday 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Address : Calle 12 No. 7-65.

Tel : (571) 5622000