Inmmediate environment

Built in 1800 to honor the Viceroy, after the victory over the Spanish, the government of New Granada was bought for gifts to the Liberator. In this space was established Gran Colombia and Simón Bolívar fled after the attack on his life on September 25, 1828. For live there for 423 days, although not consecutive, constituting the longest stay in any place of the Liberator in adulthood, the Fifth has a historical sense that no other monument of Bolivar. It is also the last home field of several surrounding the colonial city of Santa Fe, which survives from before independence. More

Salavarrieta Policarpa is the most popular heroine of the Spanish reconquest period. In their fight for the patriot cause, among other activities, organized military detachments to support Bolívar and Santander. It was discovered and shot on November 14, 1817 by order of Spanish Pablo Morillo. He is honored with this statue made ​​in bronze, located at one end of the ride that bears his name.

Church built in the seventeenth century by the Congregation of the Oratory, who also built a convent in 1665 transferred to the Dominicans. They occupied it until 1802, when because of a smallpox hospital was converted for the remainder of the nineteenth century. Then it was a female convent and is now the headquarters of Colombia Crafts. More

In the sixteenth century, pilgrims santafereños often met to celebrate the Eucharist in a small chapel dedicated to Santa Cruz in the Cerro de las Nieves, known today as Monserrate. This tradition was the priest Pedro de Solis and Valenzuela to expand the chapel and found the shrine of Our Lady of Monserrate Cruz. After the earthquake of 1917, the chapel was replaced by a colonial style church. The church retains its colonial size of the 'Lord of Monserrate' carved in 1656, and because of the miracles attributed invites pilgrims to climb the hill of Monserrate knees. More

Vicachá or San Francisco River was born in the desert of Choachí. Was the main source of water supply in Bogota until the late nineteenth century. Jiménez de Quesada Street was built on its banks when the river was channeled in the first half of the twentieth century. Axis Environmental, built between 1999 and 2001, is one of the most ambitious urban projects in the city and rescue the memory of that old bed through a trickle of water that extends from near the Quinta de Bolivar, until 10th Avenue. More

In 1870 the Royal Spanish Academy authorized the operation of American schools, and in 1872 held the first meeting of the Colombian Academy. This seat replaced in a different place, the one built between 1916 and 1918 in the premises occupied by the house of President and philologist Miguel Antonio Caro, building demolished to widen the 19th street after. The current headquarters was built between 1955 and 1961, and on the long stairs there is a pedestal with Caro sculpture. More

Originally erected in 1883 at Centennial Park, located opposite the Church of San Diego and named to celebrate the 100 anniversary of the birth of Simón Bolívar. In 1958, actual construction of the 26th street passing through the center of the park, it disappeared. Currently, the Temple with the image of the Liberator (known as 'Bolivar speaker'), is located in the Park of Journalists, diagonal to the headquarters of the Colombian Academy of Language.