Abbreviation for Bogotá, Colombia

Bogotá, officially Bogotá D. C. (Distrito Capital), capital of Colombia with (2020) 7.7 million residents.

Administrative seat of the department of Cundinamarca, 2,650 m above sea level, on the eastern edge of a fertile plateau (“Sabana”) of the Eastern Cordillera, overlooked by the Monserrate (3,165 m above sea level), in the Capital District (1,587 km ²); Archbishopric.

Bogotá is a cultural center with numerous state and private universities, among others. Colleges, conservatory, libraries and archives; National Museum, “Museo del Oro” (since 1939, reopened in 2004) with the largest collection of pre-Columbian gold objects; Botanical Garden. The city is the main trading center of the country and the most important industrial location (especially chemical, electrotechnical and pharmaceutical industry, mechanical engineering, breweries), printing and publishing houses, trade fair location; Transport hub, since 2000 the inner-city express bus system “TransMilenio”; international Airport.

Cityscape

The old town, laid out by the Spaniards in a square checkerboard scheme, still bears features of the colonial era. The most important political and political groups are grouped around the central Plaza Bolívar (until 1846 Plaza Mayor, 1881–83 redesigned, 1959–60 by Fernando Martínez Sanabria) with the bronze statue of S. Bolívar in the middle (before 1846, by P. Tenerani) religious buildings: to the east, the cathedral (founded in 1553, including the grave of the city’s founder G. Jiménez de Quesada) with a neoclassical facade by Domingo de Petrés (1807–23, bell towers 1943–49 by Alfredo Rodríguez Orgaz) and the adjoining sacred church (Capilla del Sagrario, 1660-1700, from Gabriel Gómez de Sandoval) and the archbishop’s new palace (1950s, by Rodríguez Orgaz, replacing the demolished customs building from 1793 by Domingo Esquiaqui); in the south the neoclassical parliament building (Capitolio Nacional, 1847–1925, begun by Thomas Reed, continued by Pietro Cantini, Antonio Clopatofsky et al.; erected on the site of the Palace of the Viceroys, which was destroyed by fire in 1786, 1763–64, by Tomás Sánchez Reciente), on the reverse the presidential palace Casa de Nariño (1906–08 and 1972–79) and the astronomical observatory (1802–03, by Petrés); in the west the town hall Palacio Liévano (1902–05, from Gastón Lelarge; replaced the previous building Galerías Arrubla, 1845–47, which was destroyed by fire in 1900; redesigned in the 1970s); to the north the Palace of Justice (rebuilt at the end of the 20th century after the previous building was destroyed from 1962 to 1971 after occupation by the guerrillas and storming by the military in 1985).

The churches of the numerous monasteries in the surrounding city center have mostly been preserved: The oldest are La Concepción (1583–95 and 1617–63), with a painted wooden ceiling (16th century) in the Moorish Mudéjar style, and San Francisco (1557–1621; bell tower and façade renovated by Esquiaqui and Petrés in neoclassical style after earthquake damage in 1785), also with a Mudéjar ceiling (1593–1611) and a main altar carved and gilded according to Dutch engravings (begun in 1622 by Ignacio García de Ascucha); San Ignacio (1610–91, begun by Giovanni Battista Coluccini; with splendid interior decoration) has a facade based on the model of Sant’Andrea in Mantua; Santa Clara (around 1629–47, begun by Matías de Santiago; baroque altarpiece; Museum since 1983) and San Agustín (1637–67, by Bartolomé and José de la Cruz) are partly decorated with wall paintings in the style of the mestizo Baroque.

Named after the church La Candelaria (1686–1703, begun by Diego Sánchez de Montemayor; tower from 1857), the district east of the main square is a listed building and has been restored since the 1980s. It houses Bogotá’s best-preserved secular buildings from colonial Spanish times: the patio house of the city palace Casa del Marqués de San Jorge (17th / 18th century, from Esquiaqui and others, with wall paintings; since 1973 the seat of the Archaeological Museum), the Casa del Florero (16th century)./17th century; 1810 starting point of the independence movement; since 1960 Museo 20 de Julio), the mint of the viceroyalty of New Granada (Casa de la Moneda, 1753–59, Sánchez Reciente; today the art collection of the Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango / Banco de la República with Botero Foundation) and the Jesuit complex Edificio de las Aulas (completed in 1604, by Pedro Pérez; since 1942 Museo de arte colonial). Typical country house architecture is that of Bolívar1821-30 temporarily inhabited Hacienda Quinta de Bolivar (1800, José Antonio Portocarrero, now a museum) at the foot of Monserrate (with sanctuary on the summit; 1650-57, of Pedro Solis Valenzuela; by earthquakes in 1743 and destroyed in 1917, new building in 1925 by Arturo Jaramillo Concha in neo-Gothic style, then redesigned according to colonial models; houses the figure of Christ of Monserrate by Pedro Lugo de Albarracín, around 1656).

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• Abbreviation: BOG
• Country: Colombia

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