Top Bogotá History Free Tour: La Candelaria Experience

This is the first tour you should take when you arrive in Bogotá. In three hours we walk La Candelaria, La Concordia and Las Aguas, and you leave knowing where the city you are about to explore comes from.

We talk about the Muisca people who lived on this plateau, the El Dorado legend, independence, the Bogotazo and the events that shaped the country. You will see, from the outside, the Congress, the City Hall, the Supreme Court, the Presidential Palace, Bolívar's house, the Botero Museum, the Candelaria church, the Chorro de Quevedo, a traditional market square and the Parque de los Periodistas.

And we talk about people: Botero, García Márquez, and what daily life is actually like here. It is a tour for laughing, asking questions and taking photographs.

Schedule

• Monday to Sunday.
• Duration: 3 hours.

Meeting point

• Plaza de Bolívar, in front of the doors of the Catedral Primada.
• Look for the guide holding the green Oaca Colombia umbrella.

Languages

• Spanish

What is included

• Local guide throughout.
• Walking tour of La Candelaria, La Concordia and Las Aguas.

What is not included

• Museum tickets: this is a walking tour of the outside.
• Food and drinks.

What it costs

• This is a free tour: at the end you decide what it was worth.

• This is a walking tour of the outside: we do not go inside any venue.

• The tour runs rain or shine: bring an umbrella.
• Comfortable shoes for three hours of walking.
• Leave early: from Chapinero or Calle 93 the journey can take 40 minutes to an hour. Check it before you set off.