Sights in Bucaramanga
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Museo Casa de Bolívar
The Museo Casa de Bolívar is housed in a colonial mansion where Bolívar stayed for two months in 1828. The museum displays various historic and archeological exhibits, including weapons, documents, paintings, and mummies and artifacts of the Guane people who inhabited the region before the Spaniards arrived.
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Catedral de la Sagrada Familia
Of the city churches, the Catedral de la Sagrada Familia, facing Parque Santander, is the most substantial piece of religious architecture. Constructed over nearly a century (1770–1865), it’s a massive, eclectic edifice with fine stained-glass windows and a ceramic cupola brought from Mexico.
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Jardín Botánico Eloy Valenzuela
The verdant Jardín Botánico Eloy Valenzuela has 7.5 hectares of gardens, a small pond and a Japanese tea garden. The gardens are on the banks of the Río Frío on the old road to Floridablanca, in the suburb of Bucarica. To get there, take the Bucarica bus from Carrera 15 in the city center.
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Capilla de los Dolores
The Capilla de los Dolores, in the Parque García Rovira, is Bucaramanga’s oldest surviving church, erected in stone in 1748–50, but no longer operates as a church.
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Casa de la Cultura
The Casa de la Cultura is located in a historic building and features a collection of paintings donated by the local artists.
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Museo de Arte Moderno de Bucaramanga
Museo de Arte Moderno de Bucaramanga houses rotating exhibits of modern paintings and sculptures.
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