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Santa Fe (Spanish pronunciation:) is the third locality of Bogotá, the Capital District of Colombia. Santa Fe is part of the traditional downtown area where Bogotá was founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada on August 6, 1538. Historically, this area comprised the entire main urban area of Bogotá, and was known as "Santa Fe de Bogotá".
1538 - Santa Fe de Bogotá founded by Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada. [1] 1539 - 27 April: Municipal council in session [2] 1540 - City status granted by Charles I of the Spanish Empire [2] 1549 - City becomes capital of the New Kingdom of Granada; 1550 - Santo Domingo convent founded. 1553 - Main Plaza relocated [3]
During colonial centuries two trends were clear, which common source was formed by religious topics: culta, highly influenced by metropolitan 17th-century painting counted in the Santa Fe school with outstanding individuals, for instance Baltasar de Figueroa, the head of a painters dynasty, who created and maintained the school where Gregorio ...
1 Encomenderos & ordinary Mayor - Spanish Administration of Santa Fe de Bogotá (1538–1810) 2 Mayors of Santa Fe de Bogotá 3 Municipal Mayors of Bogotá (1910–1954)
In the year 2000, phase one of the TransMilenio system was opened between Portal de la 80 and Tercer Milenio, including this station.. The station gets the name Calle 19 due to its proximity to that street.
In 1809, before the events of the Colombian Declaration of Independence took place, the Cabildo (council) of Santa Fe de Bogotá decided it was advisable to send a representative to the Junta Suprema Central located in Seville. It commissioned Camilo Torres Tenorio to draft the document known in Colombian history by the name "Memorandum of ...
The wood of the trees of the Eastern Hills were used for construction and heating in the city that grew steadily until the 19th century. This led to deforestation and erosion in the Eastern Hills and when Alexander von Humboldt visited Santa Fe de Bogotá in 1806, he noted "that there was not a single tree left until the open area of Choachí ...
The National Museum of Colombia (Spanish: Museo Nacional de Colombia) is the National Museum of Colombia housing collections on its history, art, culture. [1] [2] Located in Bogotá downtown, is the biggest and oldest museum in Colombia.