–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Colombia is many different things to many different people. But for me Colombia is a country of water and jungle, of rivers and trees – most tourism adverts might show the soft pastels of Cartagena, or the urban cool of Bogota and Medellin, even the folded green mountains of […]
Tag: Literature and Art
Make sure to take our other Colombia Quizzes to test your Colombia knowledge: –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Personality Quiz: Which Iconic Colombian Are You? Name that Colombian Fruit! How much do you know about legendary Colombian Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel García Márquez? Have you read his books, biographies, our 87 Facts about Gabo blog post!? […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Getsemaní used to be known for very different things: this burgeoning Cartagena neighborhood of music, street-art, food and tourism was once a no-go area, famous for drugs and crime; far from the cultural epicenter of Cartagena that it now represents. With featured pieces about the area on Forbes and […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– A few years ago we published a list of recommended books to read before visiting Colombia: this list contained such titles as 100 Years of Solitude, La voragine, and Maria. It’s still a very relevant selection of excellent novels and non-fiction books to give any reader a good overview of Colombian, […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Gabriel García Márquez es la figura más emblemática de Colombia: un gigante literario cuya actitud relajada e informal encanto costeño lo han hecho un héroe para millones de personas. Tuvo una vida muy peculiar. Así que aquí esta el Top 5 de See Colombia Travel con nuestros momentos favoritos […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– The Teatro de Cristóbal Colón, in Bogota’s La Candelaria neighborhood, is finally reopening it’s (frankly massive) doors this week after being closed since 2008 for extensive renovations. The theatre, the oldest standing opera house in South America, was built in 1885 by the Italian architect Pietro Cantini, and was opened […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Last week marked the inauguration of Bogota’s annual International Book Fair. We even wrote a post about it: see! I was so inspired by my own descriptions of the Fair and its myriad delights that I went along on Saturday to see what all the fuss (that I was […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Today marks the first day of Bogota’s annual International Book Fair (FILBO). The festival will run for two weeks between April 29 and May 12, and takes place in Corferias, a large convention centre in the neighbourhood of Quintaparedes (Corferias address: Cra. 37 #24-67). Since the fair began in […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– When I first pulled One Hundred Years of Solitude from the shelf in my local bookshop, aged 14, and quickly parted with the princely sum of eight pounds to take it home (mainly because I loved the sound of the author’s name and the cover-art,), I could never have […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Gabriel Garcia Marquez will forever be remembered as a man of letters; a literary icon almost without equal, and the originator of the Latin American literary ‘boom’ with whom he is synonymous. However, what many people may not know is that music was as much, if not more, of […]