The wonderful thing about colombia by Juan Mantilla

jjmantilla9617 — 2017-03-26 16:59:34 UTC

My beautiful colombia

Cartagena has been a city mainly associated with the pirate history, because it was there where several attacks were presented by the pirates of Europe, who found in the city a suitable place for the colonial time

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jjmantilla9617 — 2017-03-26 17:11:56 UTC

The museum displays a selection of pre-Columbian gold and other metal alloys, such as Tumbaga, contains the largest collection of gold in the world– in its exhibition rooms on the second and third floors. Together with pottery, stone, shell, wood and textilearchaeological objects, these items, made of what to indigenous cultures was a sacred metal, testify to the life and thought of different societies which inhabited what is now known as Colombia before the conquest of the Spanish

jjmantilla9617 — 2017-03-26 17:19:44 UTC

Tayrona National Park is located 30 kilometers (approximately 19 miles) from Santa Marta. You will find some of the unique biodiversity of the Sierra Nevada on display here. You will find beaches of fine sand and be able to look from the coast to the top of the 900 meters (approximately 2950 feet) of peaks in the 150 square kilometer (approximately 58 square mile) park.

jjmantilla9617 — 2017-03-26 17:31:56 UTC

The Cathedral of Salt is an enclosure built inside the salt mines of Zipaquirá, in the department of Cundinamarca, Colombia. In fact it is a tourist site, it is more like a museum than a true cathedral temple because it is not the seat of any prelate.The architectural and artistic design of the new Cathedral of Sal, is characteristic of the Bogota architect Roswell Garavito Pearl, which was approved after the election of the project that contained a total of 44 proposals in a contest convened by the Colombian Society of Architects in 1990; While the technical engineering direction was executed by the Bogota engineer Jorge Enrique Castelblanco Reyes.

jjmantilla9617 — 2017-03-26 17:36:38 UTC

The Stone of El Peñol, that giant rock that for several million years accompanies the landscape of eastern Antioquia - two hours from Medellín - does not cease to amaze the travelers. Its two hundred meters of height do not go unnoticed when some tourist is in these places. The third largest scalable stone in the world does not pass into the background if it is natural attractions.

The story tells that El Peñón de Guatapé, as it is also known, was an element of worship for the Indians who pre-Hispanic times inhabited the region, and during the colonial era were made legends as famous as the devil who tried to take several times

jjmantilla9617 — 2017-03-26 17:41:24 UTC

Hacienda Naples is the name that receives an
extensive and luxurious rural property, located in the municipality of Puerto
Triunfo, Antioquia, Republic of Colombia. It is located in the valley of the
Magdalena River, and is recognized as a symbol of the success of the Cartel de
Medellín and, specifically, its owner Pablo Escobar, one of the founders of
this. Located in the department of Antioquia in Colombia, the hacienda Naples
is a giant area, where various animal species live in its ecosystem. There are
also attractions like a fictional simulation of a Jurassic park, a coliseum, a
portentous house, ruins of a collection of cars and an airstrip. The Hacienda
Naples was built by the famous Colombian skipper Pablo Escobar, who was
confiscated in the 1980s. It is currently an attraction park.

jjmantilla9617 — 2017-03-26 17:44:45 UTC

Called "the river of the gods" "the river of the five colors", "the rainbow that melted" or also "the most beautiful river in the world", since in its background aquatic plants (algae) Colors, which produce the feeling of being in front of a river of five colors: red, yellow, green, black, blue and pink mainly

jjmantilla9617 — 2017-03-26 17:48:36 UTC


The park is located on the Bucaramanga - San Gil road, 54 km from the capital of the department of Santander and 39 km from San Gil, being jurisdiction of the municipality of Aratoca, has been built on the Chicamocha Canyon, taking advantage of its natural and Historical. Its extension is of 264 hectares.The Park comprises an urban complex formed by different elements and places that represent the Santanderean culture.

The biggest attraction of the Ecoparque Cerro del Santísimo, located where the Clausen brewery worked for years, is the "Cerro del Santísimo", a sculpture almost 40 meters high with a tower in its back for two panoramic elevators, built by the company Mitsubishi , Which will give visitors the opportunity to climb up to the head of the Christ and have a 360 degree view of the metropolitan area of Bucaramanga.There tourists will find one of the highest monuments in Latin America, the "Santísimo" a figure that resembles the Corcovado of Brazil, and that at its base has a source of water, which at night will have effects of lights.

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jjmantilla9617 — 2017-03-26 17:57:42 UTC

Since the mid-1990s, Botero had raised the possibility of donating his entire art collection to the Antioquia Museum in Medellín. However, the slowness in decision-making by the Antioquian authorities led him to accept the proposal of the then mayor of Bogota, Enrique Peñalosa, to donate his collection to Bogota. Although Peñalosa proposed to build a new museum to house it, the artist preferred to deliver his private art collection, valued at more than 200 million dollars, to the Bank of the Republic of Colombia in Bogota, an institution with a long history of cultural activities related to Numismatics, art and libraries, and in whose Library Luis Angel Arango had exposed the series of La Corrida years ago.