In Colombia there are a huge number of touristic places to know, but if we want to live a really unforgettable experience we should visit the most historic and exotic sites of this beautiful land.

If you want to visit historic places, we could head to Cartagena and there you can go sightseeing the San Felipe’s Castle, Rosario’s Islands, the City Walls, the Old City, etc. For example, the San Felipe Castle was built in 1536, called originally San Lazaro Castle, it was rebuilt in 1657 and named San Felipe. It was built in order to watch for any attempt of invasion to the city, and by this way be able to response quickly to any attack. An interesting data: the San Felipe Castle is said to be one of biggest buildings built in the American Continent, and nowadays, it is considered Historical Heritage, as well as the City Walls, and they’re the oldest structure in our country.

Another historic place you can visit is La Candelaria in Bogota D.C. This is the historical and cultural core in the capital city, and it is one of the most preserved across Latin America. It has attracted many artists, foreigners, writers and intellectuals, whose have filled the sector with theaters, universities, besides you can find antiques houses of gridded windows, carved gates and stone roads, a very beautiful and colorful place where you can appreciate the old Bogota and how this massive metropolis was in its very beginning.

You could go to San Agustin’s archaeological park, which has been declared Historical Heritage. In this you can see a lot of unbelievable stone figures and amazing stone tombs made by the natives of the San Agustin’s culture. The park is located near San Agustin town, and it extends to San Jose de Isnos, Saladoblanco and Pitalito, and the archeological remaining includes huge stone statues and stone reliefs, funeral mounds, groundings, roads and embankments. These monumental sites and the diversity and richness of its representations talk to us about rituals, procreation, transformations, animal cults and the strength of dead after life.

Or you also can go to Santa Marta’s Sierra Nevada. This one is a complex of snowy mountains and the Tairona Park within it. The Tairona Park is a really nice place to visit, the beaches are beautiful, the landscape is stunning and you can visit the remaining descendants of the Tairona, a Pre-Columbian tribe that habited centuries ago. Within the park we can find reconstructed ruins of the prehistoric settlement, which are a sample of the sophisticated stone architecture and engineering, which includes terraces, contention walls, roads, bridges, stairs and canals. In the settlement of the Tairona Park, long before a number of Indians habited the coast and the snow Mountains, but after a century of resistance, the Indians were defeated in the XVII century by the Spanish, whose fire their villages, agricultural areas and their leaders were executed, and finally the jungle covers all vestiges of the old settlements.