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.
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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.
lunes, 16 de mayo de 2011
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HOUSE GENERAL GUSTAVO ROJAS PINILLA
In the southeast corner of the plaza del carmen is the house where former president "General Rojas Pinilla, in one of this visits, the general issued and signed, along with all his ministers, on December 17 of 1957, Decree No. 3841, for which Villa de Leyva declared a national monument.
HOUSE CONGRESO DE LAS PROVINCIAS UNIDAS
The October 4 of 1812 installed the first congrest of the united provinces of new Granada and camilo Torres was appointed as Chairman. The house is located in front of the entrance to city hall and runs the tourist office.
LOS PORTALES
The elegant architecture romantic that decorating the side northeast built it Juan de Castellanos. In this work the town hall and some restaurants. Juan de castellanos wrote in 150000 verses, the history related with the struggles of the conquest with the Indians.
Casa de la primera fábrica de destilaciones del Nuevo Reino de Granada
Also known as la real fabrica de licores, a of the first factories of spirits in the country, the cover, in style baroque popular, shows even the shield used for España in the metropolis and its colonies. It is located half a block from the square up to the Hospedería Duruelo.
Casa natal de Ricaurte
It is a tribute of admiration and love the hero of San Mateo. The FAC (Fuerza Aerea Colombiana) acquirer the property in 1970 and install in this a museum military in tribute to who considered his pattern.
SAN AGUSTIN
In the same square of Ricaurte is the former convent of San Agustin that was founded in 1850, today works as Instituto Humboldt.
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SAN FRANCISCO
The Franciscan monastery was founded in 1614 and abandoned by its inhabitants in 1821. Located nex to the hospital.
THE CHURCH NUESTRA SEÑORA DEL CARMEN
Built in 1850. Andalusia is truly a crossroads of two chapels. The smaller the original and is dedicated to the Virgen del Carmen most populary know as "Iglesia de Mama Linda".
CARMEN MUSEUM
It exhibits woks of religious art from the XVII to XX founded in 1971 by the PP. Carmelitas, who brought the intimacy of the Convent cloisters these treasures wich are a historical record of life and cultura of your order.
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HOUSE CABILDO
On the south side of the square, in the house of Cabildo is one of the historic relics of the Villa.
HOUSE NARIÑO
In this house died of a strike Antonio Nariño the thirteen on December the eighteen-twenty-three. The house is located betwwn the terminal and the square.
HOUSE VARGAS TEJADA
Located one block north of the real manufacturing the liquor, the poet lived and playwright Luis Vargas Tejada. Wrote here "The Convulsion`s".
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PARQUE ARQUEOLÓGICO MONIQUIRA (INFIERNO)
Populary place known as the infiernito, location to six km by way Villa de Leyva Santa Sofía, deals a rectangular ground of thirty-eight meters long by twelve of width with fifty-six vertically columns willing at a height of one hundred eighty to four hundred fifty meters approximately thirty-five to forty cm of width, appears level at its upper end, have at least twenty-two – zero-zero age of old, so that predate the arrival of the muiscas to the region.
The culture of the muiscas considered the phaulls as a symbol of fertility, the sacredness of human sexuality and the concern by the fertility of the fields, these failures loaded transcendent forces and magical and spiritual values, became symbolic manifestations of the sacred, there are also a tomb Dolménica, which is a monument stone tomb, wich are some skeletal remains because of looting.
MUSEUM TEACHER LUIS ALBERTO ACUÑA
In the main square is the museum presented oil paintings and acrylics, etc. It is ocated next to the house of Vargas Villa.
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PARISH CHURCH
Villa de Leyva`s simbol and the logu. Located in the principal square was built in the first half of the XVII Century.
PRINCIPAL SQUARE
The town center, completely paved with 14000 square meters is the biggest of the country. A square that supplied drinking water to the population for many years is at the center.
Founded the 12 July of 1572 by Hernan Suarez de Villalobos by order of the president of the real rearing Don Andrés Diaz Vereno de Leyva located in the andina`s region inside of the department of Boyacá with a population of 14.000 inhabitants, approximately at height of 21149 meters above sea level with on extension of 128 km² and a temperature average of 18 degrees celsius.
It is preserved the old valve of its architecture and a natural environment to admire that together with traces of cultural history is one of the most valuable degrees in the past.
Villa de Leyva has a unique landscape surrounded by ochre colored mountains, almost desert and with a mountain chain with wonderful forest, including the lake of Iguaque
As an additional attraction, the town has institutionalized a series of massive events and festivals that attract a lot of people that promote, the trade and the tourist service with an excellent chain of hotels and restaurants and places to rest and the contact with the nature.
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