Monuments History

Monument’s History

1^st Article

     

  As the capital of our country, Bogota is one of the cities with most historical importance in the continent because it was the main setting of the Colony, Independence and of the Bogotaso Movement. There are also many modern-styled sculptures distributed and located all around the city. These events had been represented and commemorated in sculptures, statues and buildings all around our city in places we use to go. But sometimes we don’t realize what piece of our historical puzzle we have under our noses.

The Discovery of the Americas for me is one of the most important events in the world history. That’s why in the street that drives you to the airport there are to statues in one plaza. One of them represents Christopher Columbus and the other one is the queen Elizabeth of Castile.

 

 

In the Candelaria we have one statue representing the city founder, Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada that came here in the year 1538 to the Sabana. In these sectors we also have other colonial monuments such as lots of churches and cathedrals. There are also many haciendas such as the Hacienda Santa Barbara.

From the Independence we have representations, sometimes abstract, of the leaders and characters of our process to get freedom and liberty from the Spain. There are from Simón Bolívar, Francisco de Paula Santander, Camilo Torres, and Policarpa Salavarrieta.

Our history is our city, how it looks and what it has.

2^nd Article

    The independence of the New Granada was a process done by lots of characters that were from many diverse social classes fighting against the big difference on the rights and preferences that Spaniards had over the other social classes.

One of these ones was Simon Bolivar. Who was born in Caracas. The place where Bogota was founded now bears the name Plaza Bolívar. There is an Italian sculpture made in the middle XIX’s that shows this hero stand up. There is also a place called “Templete al Libertador” in the “Parque de los Periodistas”

Other one of those was Francisco de Paula Santander. He was one of the leaders that helped us to get our independence. There is a statue in the Santander Park in the Candelaria commemorating him.

At last but not least, there was one woman whose name was Policarpa Salavarrieta. She was born in the village of Guaduas and she was one of the only women who helped in this movement. There is a monument that shows her tied on a chair when she was murdered in the Spanish reconquest of the New Granada.

There are hundreds of monuments of these characters all around the city. Just take a look and realize what they are and its importance in our history of our city, country, continent or even the whole world.

3^rd Article

Bogota is a city of the twenty one century; it is being furnished and styled with the art and the sculptures that show abstract settings, characters and items. This type of arte is known for being simple, light to the sight, cheap and sometimes colorful. This is known as the school of the Modern Art.

One of the most important representative streets, I would say highway actually, is the Dorado Avenue. It is full of big buildings, banks and there is where the newspaper El Tiempo is edited and printed. All the way down to the airport is full of beautiful iron and steel monuments that show daily life items and activities.

In the 7^th avenue with 100^th street we have a little monument for Mahatma Gandhi because of the way he won the independency for India from the United Kingdom. This way was peaceful and without many dead and murdering.

One campaign the city is doing is to place metal trees all around the city that are painted sometimes randomly or sometimes with a special theme. LOOK FOR’EM!