Architecture
Monserrate
On 07, May 2013 | One Comment | In Architecture, Bogotá, Tourism | By ClaireGuilloton
Monserrate is the place to be seen in Bogota. I went a couple of years ago, and always worth going up. (Taking advantage of friends over to visit everything…)
More info about Monserrate in there.
Tabio
On 16, Apr 2013 | No Comments | In Architecture, Tourism | By ClaireGuilloton
Tabio is another village we visited last weekend. Nice little church close to the mountain. Nice to meet Don Quijote de la Mancha along the way, he’s quite a nice guy!
Tenjo
On 15, Apr 2013 | No Comments | In Architecture, Tourism | By ClaireGuilloton
We went to visit Tenjo this weekend. A village at about 1h30 from Bogotá by car.
It was Sunday and a market was taking place in the center of the village. People were playing games like tejo, trompo and many more typical games from Colombia. Very nice atmosphere.
And look at those colours…
In the market, I bought Yacón’s tea (In French, Yacón is “Poire de terre”, otherwise, it is called “Smallanthus sonchifolius”), which has apparently lots of virtues. And the root alone is good!
Zipaquirá
On 23, Jan 2013 | 2 Comments | In Architecture, Tourism | By ClaireGuilloton
Zipaquirá is a town very close to Bogotá. It holds, they say, a “wonder of Colombia”, which is the Salt Cathedral. If you want to know about it, you can check it here. What I was interested in this trip was the village itself.
A colonial architecture with a good percentage of light green associated with a touch of orange tiles make the whole thing quite harmonious.
Orange in Armenia
On 22, Jan 2013 | One Comment | In Architecture, Tourism | By ClaireGuilloton
That was the last bit of Armenia…
…Well actually not really. I forgot to mention the oldest coffee machine of the region. It is located in the “bar del centro” in the village of Pijao. The guy who’s doing this is quite passionate about it and was proud to serve me a capuccino. Nice.
Salento
On 14, Jan 2013 | 2 Comments | In Architecture, Photography, Tourism | By ClaireGuilloton
Salento is a beautiful village on the top of the mountain which deserves to be seen.
The architecture is playing with the colours, and I have never seen so many different types of doors. It was quite inspiring to be honest.
In Salento, you can find many craft markets, restaurants, and you have the possibity to go up the mountain and see the whole village from above.
More information about Salento here.
Armenia
On 11, Jan 2013 | One Comment | In Architecture, Photography, Tourism | By ClaireGuilloton
Doing a bit of tourism for a couple of days.
This region of Armenia is quite amazing. They have interesting colours on the architecture. The hotel where we were, interesting mix of colours.
If you are interested in the hotel, it was very clean, beautiful, and quite cheap for the region: Mi Monaco.
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