Parish Church
Over Angel
Blue Holes
Holy Eccehomo
martes, 17 de mayo de 2011
OTHER TOURIST SPOTS
- Archacological Park Moniquira (infiernito)
- Museum Teacher Luis Alberto Acuña.
- House Cabildo
- House Vargas Tejada
- The Franciscan Monastery
- Carmen Museum
- House General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla
- House Congreso de las Provincias Unidas
- Monument Universal to silence
- Los Portales
- House the primera fabrica de destilaciones del Nuevo Reino de Granada.
- House natal de Ricaurte
- Monasterio Santo Eccehomo.
TOURIST SITES 5
MONASTERIO SANTO ECCEHOMO (Monument universal to silence)
The convent santo eccehomo is a place spiritually charming, where the visits get away to the imagination of past times. Get out of villa de leyva to santa sofia with travel eight kilometers.
Was Founded for los frailes dominicos on march fifteen 1620, a Sunday of branches and today perserves its desing architectural . The convent santo eccehomo was declared a good interest cultural of character national in 1998. Today also is a place retreats spiritual. Was selected for the newspaper el tiempo on February 2007 as one of the twenty one wonders of Colombia around 227 property of heritage historic of the nation. In its inside the convent exhibits some pieces of museum such as: altars, pictures, old books, and other things.
Paleontological Museum
At the population, on the road toArcabuco, is the oldest flour mill in Colombia. Today it runs themuseum displaying fossils 120 million years.
Convent carmelitas
Discalced Carmelite convent: Founded on April 8, 1645, sincethen the sisters lived permanently n closing entirely devoted toprayer and manual labor.
Cascade Piriquera
Natural attraction located 15 km from Villa de Leyva, bordering the municipality of gachantiva, with an altitude of 2600m.snm and an average temperature of 15 º c, we will find the high chair Ecological Park, a name that is attributed to the place due to the number of birds that were there, especially yellow-billed parrots.
As a central attraction found a waterfall about 25 meters, now thisplace provides a great variety of ecotourism and adventure, focused on healthy recreation, giving the tourists visiting this placedifferent alternatives within the different activities are, Rapel,Rappelling, canopy, caving,Nature walks, camping.
Located in the village Moniquirá in the same place where Samuel Vargas Yagama a peasant from the region found the fossil of apliosaur in June 1977, the inhabitants of the region is not allowed relic was relocated to a museum specialist, so is q gave a construction to show that the fossil was examined by the German Oliver Hamper who gave the name of Kronosaurus boyacencis calculation plus or minus 130 million years. Around her are cabinets with fossils found in the region as ammonites, plants, fish, plesiosaurs, and others.
Natural attraction located 15 km from Villa de Leyva, bordering the municipality of gachantiva, with an altitude of 2600m.snm and an average temperature of 15 º c, we will find the high chair Ecological Park, a name that is attributed to the place due to the number of birds that were there, especially yellow-billed parrots.
As a central attraction found a waterfall about 25 meters, now thisplace provides a great variety of ecotourism and adventure, focused on healthy recreation, giving the tourists visiting this placedifferent alternatives within the different activities are, Rapel,Rappelling, canopy, caving,Nature walks, camping.
THE FOSSIL MUSEUM
Located in the village Moniquirá in the same place where Samuel Vargas Yagama a peasant from the region found the fossil of apliosaur in June 1977, the inhabitants of the region is not allowed relic was relocated to a museum specialist, so is q gave a construction to show that the fossil was examined by the German Oliver Hamper who gave the name of Kronosaurus boyacencis calculation plus or minus 130 million years. Around her are cabinets with fossils found in the region as ammonites, plants, fish, plesiosaurs, and others.
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