TOURISM IN BOGOTA - TOURIST PLACES - SITES OF INTEREST

There are many places to visit while in Bogota. Excellent hotels, restaurants, museums, art galleries, concert halls, nightclubs, pubs, bars, amusement parks, sport clubs, stadiums and arenas, ancient churches, and many other very interesting places.

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LODGING GUIDE

HOTELS

There is a great variety of hotels, suites, apartment-hotels and inns within the city and near the El Dorado International Airport.

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DINING GUIDE

Restaurants

You will find a great variety of restaurants that serve regional food, seafood, Latin American food, international food, vegetarian and health food restaurants.

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Pastry shops, bakeries, tea-rooms
If you have a sweet tooth, visit our best pastry shops in the city.
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SHOPPING

Shopping Centers, stores, supermarkets and shops

There is available a wide variety of of stores . There are clothing stores that sell clothes from all over the word, household articles, electronic products stores, music stores, art shops, bookstores, jewelry stores, drugstores, car agencies, supermarkets and markets with a great variety of foods... whatever you need, you will find it in Bogota.

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NIGHTLIFE

Night clubs, disco clubs, pubs and bars, shows, etc.

There are many places all over the city to have a great time and dance the night away.
There are a variety of great bars and pubs, places to dance salsa, cumbia, porro, vallenata music, soft music, rock, hard rock, places with crossover music, places to listen to jazz, blues etc.

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Casinos

Visitors who enjoy gambling, will be welcome to visit casinos around the city. There are great places with table games, slot machines, restaurants and excellent shows
The casinos in Bogota offer Baccarat, Roulette, Poker, Pari-mutuel and other lottery games.
The largest casino has 30 table games, 160 slots and video poker machines and is located in the western area of the city.


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TOURS AND DAY TRIPS

Bogota offers many sightseeing tours around the city Including entrance to museums, art galleries, restaurants and night life, and also educational tours. There are tours to nearby towns such as the tour to Zipaquirá to visit the Salt Cathedral, a cathedral built inside a salt mine.

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ATTRACTIONS

Theaters, cinemas, concert halls

Visitors can enjoy visits to the theater, to see shows by great artist, comedies, open air performances, movies, or listening to beautiful classical, regional and folk music in concert halls.

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Museums and Art Galleries

There are about 80 museums in Bogota: fine arts museums, contemporary and modern art, religious art, history, museums of archaeology, science and technology, and many others.

Some of the main ones are:

Fine Arts museums
National Museum -fine arts, history, anthropology, ethnography - Carrera 7 #28-66 - (downtown)
Museum of Modern Art (MAMBO) Calle 24 # 6-00 (downtown)
Colonial Art museum Carrera 6 # 9-77 (downtown)
The Church of Santa Clara Museum - colonial religious art - Carrera 8 # 8-91 (downtown)
Botero Museum Calle 11 # 4-41 (downtown)
Mercedes Sierra de Pérez El Chicó Museum Carrera 7 # 93-01 (northern area)
Contemporary Art Museum Carrera 74 # 82A-81 (northwestern area)
Colsubsidio Museum of Museums Calle 26 # 25-42 (downtown west)

Archeological museums
The Gold Museum Calle 16 # 5-41 (downtown)
Casa del Marqués de San Jorge Carrera 6 # 7-43 (downtown)

History Museums
Museum of Bogota Calle 26 # 6-07 (downtown)
Casa 20 de Julio Calle 11 # 6-94 (downtown)
Quinta de Bolívar (history and art) Calle 20 # 3-23 (downtown)
Natural History Museum Carrera 7 # 26-14 (downtown)

Science and Technology Museums
MALOKA Carrera 68D # 40A-51 (western area)
Museo Aeroespacial Colombiano MAECO CATAM Phone 439-7800 (western area)
Children's Museum Carrera 48 # 63-97 (western area)

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Art Galleries
Many art galleries are found in Bogota. Well known artists and young artists exhibit their work in all sorts of galleries assigned to fine, modern and contemporary art

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