A walk through the historic center of Zipaquirá

over 1 year ago

My walk today is a memory of last month's trip to Bogotá. If you have been reading me these days, you may remember that last week I posted about our visit to the Salt Cathedral in Zipaquirá, a town north of Bogotá.

And although the Salt Cathedral is the reason most tourists go to Zipaquirá, the historic center of the city with its colonial buildings is well worth a visit. As I said in the previous post, we arrived by car, but you can also get there from Bogotá by bus or train, the last only on Sundays and holidays.

When we left the salt mine after visiting the cathedral, the little train dropped us off at the parking area near where we had bought our tickets and from where we could see the city from the top below.

So we walked down through a park.

We arrived at the pedestrian entrance to the area where the mine and the cathedral are located, known as the Parque de la Sal. And from there, we went out into the city.

The first thing we saw on our right was a kind of small square called Villaveces Park, where the Archaeological Museum of Zipaquirá is located.

We continued walking. The streets were very clean with colonial-style houses.

There were plenty of places to eat or have a coffee. It wasn't very busy, but it was a weekday, and I'm sure the weekends get a lot more visitors.

We arrived at another square called Plaza de la Independencia.

This was the view from the square, but we walked in the opposite direction, looking for the city's main square.

And finally, we arrive at the main square, called Plaza de Los Comuneros.

At the square, it is the cathedral of the city called Catedral de la Santísima Trinidad y San Antonio de Padua. We didn't go in because they were celebrating mass.

The square is immense and has other important buildings, such as the Government House and the Municipal Palace.

The latter is a very striking building.

We walked around the square, took pictures, and then sat down for a coffee while waiting for the taxi driver we had hired for the trip.

And that was the end of our visit to Zipaquirá. We were hungry by that time, but we had already made plans to go to eat at an iconic Colombian restaurant on the road to Bogotá, which I will tell you about in another post.

This is my post for this week's #wednesdaywalk challenge hosted by @tattoodjay in collaboration with #makemesmile hosted by @elizacheng.

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October 26, 2022

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48 comments

@anttn 76

over 1 year ago

Hi @coquicoin,
Seems you’ve got a nice walk there !
Love your captures and especially the one with the white-lined stairs... don’t really know why... maybe because of the discrete graphic side :)

Thanks for sharing this tour, you made me travel without moving and my wish to travel in South America grow a bit more ^^

I hope you’re doing fine 🤞🏼

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