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![Bogotá Plaza de Bolívar The National Capital and Lievano Palace buildings bordering a large plaza](/images/plaza-de-bolivar-bogota.jpg)
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Every city and town I have visited has a plaza named after Simon Bolívar who led Colombia to independence from Spain. I find it interesting that he did not feel South Americans were ripe for the ideals of the American Revolution, due to their “ignorance, tyranny, and vice.” And still, two-hundred-plus years later nothing has changed to think otherwise.
The building with the Colombian flag in the first picture is called the National Capitol and took fifty years to build. I doubt that was the planned deadline, Ok, we are going to construct this building and it's going to take fifty years to build and we will all be dead by then. The lesson, nothing is done on time in Colombia.
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![Capilla del Sagrario in Bogotá The front of the Capilla del Sagrario and the Catedral Primada building bordering the Plaza de Bolíva](/images/capilla-del-sagrario.jpg)
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![Plaza de Bolívar The National Capital, Capilla del Sagrario and the Primary Cathedral buildings bordering the Plaza de Bolívar](/images/bogota-plaza-colombia.jpg)
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![The President's Palace in Bogotá The front of the President's Palace behind a black metal fence](/images/president-palace.jpg)
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![Palace of Nariño The south side of the Palace of Nariño under blue skies](/images/bogota-goverment-building.jpg)
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![Casa de Nariño The west side of the Palace of Nariño behind a black fence](/images/justice-palace.jpg)
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![President Palace and Monserrate The President's Palace in Bogotá in the foreground and the church of Monserrate in the background](/images/president-palace-and-monserrate.jpg)
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![Catedral Primada in Bogotá The Catedral Primada in the foreground and the church of Monserrate in the background](/images/catedral-primada.jpg)
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![National Capital of Bogotá The National Capital bordering the Plaza de Bolívar](/images/bogota-capital.jpg)
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![Monumento a la Batalla de Ayacucho A monument to the battle of Ayacucho in the foreground and the top of the Carmen Church in the background](/images/iglesia-del-carmen-plaza-de-ayacucho.jpg)
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