martes, 27 de septiembre de 2011

"MUSEO DEL ORO"













"El Museo del Oro" of "El Banco de la República" is located on the "Parque de Santander", on the run 5 the corner of Calle 16, Bogotá.
"El Banco de la Republica" started with the "Museo del Oro" on 1939.
Schedules:
Tuesday to Saturday 09:00 a.m. to 06:00 p.m. (Last departure at 7:00 p.m.)
Sundays and holidays 10:00 am to 04:00 p.m. (Last departure at 5:00 p.m.)

The museum is not open on mondays, even holydays.
Rates: Tuesday to Saturday, $ 3,000
Sundays free entrance for c
hildren under 12 and adults over 60 years.

The building have 4 floors.
The rooms are:" El trabajo de los metales", "La gente y el oro en la Colombia prehispánica", "La ofrenda", "El exploratorio" and "Cosmologia y simbolismo".


By: AuraRamirez

miércoles, 14 de septiembre de 2011

Thematic Park "Salitre Magico"











It's located at the 68 race with 63 street.


Before 2004 there were only 2 attractions. They were:
-"La Rueda de Chicago"
-The Coca-Cola Roller Coaster
It didn't have the name of thematic park.
At 2004 a Mexican company built "Salitre Magico" with more attractions, they gave this name because Mexicans mixed 2 names of Parks of Mexico.


The last attraction was "El Tornado".
They clean all the attractions all the days
It has 15 places for buying the tickets and 1 parking lot.

Cathedral of Bogota - San Pedro








It's located in "La plaza de bolivar" in la Candelaria the center of Bogotá.
This church was the first of Bogota the history said that they were 12 huts and the church.
It was built on 1538 and was inagurated by Fray Batolomé de las casas, who made the first mass.
It has a neoclassical architectonic style, the matirial that characterizes this cathedral is the marble.
The cathedral is in the same place where was the 12 huts, here were buried Gonzalo Jimenez de Quezada (Bogota faunder), Antonio Nariño (journalist, political and military of the Nueva Granada that helped Colombia for the independence)


By: María Alejandra Vanegas

jueves, 8 de septiembre de 2011

CHURCH:"SANTUARIO NACIONAL DE LA VIRGEN DEL CARMEN"

This church have this name in honor the Carmelo Mount,
this mount was the first place where people saw the virgin. 
It is located in la Candelaria, in the center of Bogota.
It was built in 1938 by the archited Juan Buscaglioni. 
It have a gothic architectonic style,the materials that 
characterizes it are marble and wood.
The pastor is Juan Pablo Rodríguez and he lives in 
the church.
This is not the original place where the church was buillt.
The first name of the church was "Carmelín del Carmel".










The church is most visited on June 16, 
"Semana Santa" and December.


By: Maria.Vanegas