The city of Bogot, formerly named Santa Fe de Bogot, is the capital city of Colombia and was founded on August 6 by the Spanish. The city made a mark as one of the premier cities for its growth and development. The city has refurbished its infrastructures and established itself as the countrys main major metropolitan centre. This fascinating city is a city of contrast and provides one with many remarkable sights of the modern lavish shopping malls and open-air markets, high-rise apartments and makeshift shanties, futuristic glass towers and colonial churches. Nicknamed as the "Athens of America" for its many universities and libraries its is currently the most sighted and visited city in Latin America.
Bogot is home to several wonderful museums that offer an insight into the citys magnificent past.
Children's Museum of Bogot: Take
Flights to Bogot and experience the land of contrast. The childrens museum is one of the striking key highlights of the city and which is a privately managed museum and foundation, aiming at educating the kids about subjects like science, technology, culture and arts. This enormous museum is a home to 23 different modules and hundreds of individual displays. Children are also given a chance to attend workshop for a hands on experience.
Maloka Museum: The Maloka Museum is an interactive and informative science museum which houses plethora of different displays exploring the topics in Science and Technology. Board
Cheap Flights to Bogot and wander through the most intriguing museum that has 9 rooms full with topics relating to science and technology. The room dedicated to Telecommunications features many interactive games about the Binary System whereas The Human room gives an insight into the facts relating to the human body. The most enticing room of all is the Universe room where one gets a chance to conduct fun experiments.
National Museum: Book
Flights to Bogota and sojourn the biggest and the oldest museum in Colombia. This captivating structure is a home to over 20,000 collection pieces, including works of art and objects representing different national history periods.
Childrens and adults can enjoy sighting the displays like archeology and ethnography, where one can see the samples from Colombian artifacts dating back 10,000 years BC and up to present day and Colombian art and culture.
Palacio de Narino: Palacio de Narino or the Palace of Narino, is the official home and principal workplace of the President of Colombia. This structure is the home to the main office of the excutive branch. Designed by the architects, Gaston Lelarge and Julian Lombana, this Palace is also a home to works of art and furnishings from different years. Built in the year 1802 and 1803 is the garden houses the Observatorio Astronomico de Bogot it was designed by the Capuchin friar-architect, Fray Domingo de Petres and is also a key attraction of the palace for people boarding
Cheap Flights to Bogota.
Donacion Botero: The Donacion Botero is a ravishing complex that is surrounded by several other small museums which can be ventured in a day. This complex is home to dozens of works by world renowned artist, Fernando Botero.
Bogot Flights gives visitors a chance to explore the collection including the 123 masterpieces of his own paintings, sculptures and drawings. One can also see the 85 original works of renowned European and North American artists and also original pieces by maestros like Corot, Monet, Chagall and Picasso.
