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Culture in Bogota

Bogota is known as one the most creatives cities. Based in different styles as dance, history, music, theater, plastic arts, literature, etc. Bogota has different kind of people which has transform to Bogota in a city with values in specific communities as LGBT, fighting for their rights at the society. Even respecting the differences between religions, Bogota can be called a multicultural city.

According to UNESCO, Bogota is the first city in South America who has been including a “Red de cuidades creativas de la musica” with other important cites as Seville (Spain), Bologna (Italy), Glasgow (Scotland) and Ghent (Belgium). The city has 600 or more places to make any kind of concerts or events, a big part of these places are outdoors. Also you can find here the best theater shows in South America, even the city offers shows of dance, music and theater in 45 rooms, the most representatives are “ Teatro Mayor, Teatro Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, Teatro nacional”  and other independent theaters as Mapa Teatro, la casa del Teatro, la Candelaria, Teatro Libre and Teatro Varasanta.

If we talk about arts, Bogota count with one of the most important festivals in South America: “Feria Internacional de Arte” with more than 24 thousands assistants, 66 lofts of 30 cities around the world and 2.000 works of 450 artists. It takes place every year in the early days of October. Also 70 lofts and cultural centers offer presentations on topics as painting, photography, video, arte performance and other kind of expressions of digital media.

About literature, Bogota has big libraries and the Book fest, one of the most important in Latin America. The city offer innovation in poesy, magazines, tools for books and comics even in a digital format. Count on four big libraries, six local libraries, ten neighborhood libraries, 60 communities’ libraries and one bibliobus.

In the other hand, Bogota has a large diversity of museums, to be more specific you can find 77, with different topics as precolombina (Gold Museum) military history (Military Museum) and new era as maloka with technologic and scientific experiments and demonstrations.

Bogota’s infrastructure count with 600 buildings and zones where you can see the evolution of the city in architecture and history since his foundation on 1538. Particularly, the Candelaria is one of the most representative’s neighborhoods of the city, because it conserved the colonial architecture and you can see it in the houses and squares around this neighborhood.