TOURIST SITES 1

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.