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Quinta
de San Pedro Alejandrino San Pedro is a beautiful hacienda located on the outskirts of the city, on the road to the Tayrona Park. This is the place where the Libertador Simón Bolívar passed his last days after suffering a painful disease. It was building almost four hundred years ago as a country home at the order of an illustrious prelate of the Church. It passed successively through the hands of various local families until it was bought by the Spaniard Manuel de Mier in 1800. It has been converted into a museum that recreates the places, environment and objects that surrounded Bolivar's stay in it. |
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The
Bolivarian Museum Foundation Of Contemporary Art This is located in La Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino and have exhibition halls and a Greek style theater surrounded by beatiful gardens. The purpose of this collection is to gather samples of the contemporary artistic work of the Bolivarian countries (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Bolivia and Panamá), to honor Simón Bolìvar, the Liberator. Among the art works, we find paintings, sculptures, engravings and drawings in more than 170 pieces fron distinguished artists, which are exhibited in 3 permanent halls. |
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Customs
House This brick and stone building, located on the Plaza de Bolivar, hasn't merely survived the passage of time. Built at the beginning of the sixteenth century for a wealthy family of merchants, it survived the devastating earthquake of 1834, being the only building that remained standing. During its history it has served various ends, for which reason it has been known by various names: the Green Palace, the Palace of the Governors, the House of the Wake (held for Simón Bolívar) and the Customs House, which latter it still bears today. It was abandoned during much of the last century, until it was restored in 1974 and declared a national monument. |
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Ecohabitats Living the way the ancient inhabitants of the Sierra Nevada did is today a reality, thanks to the construction of ecological lodgings set in the territory of the Tayrona Park. With the majesty of the sea and the exotic surroundings of a vegetation rich in variety, a stay in the ecohabs adds a large dose of magic and enchantment to your time in our city. |
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Tayrona
Museum Visitors will get to know the life and customs of this Indian family that inhabited the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta around 500 D through an exquisite collection of authentic items. The Tayronas, composed of different ethnic groups, reached their greatest development around the fifteenth century and decayed a century later, after resisting the Spanish Conquest for almost a hundred years. Today it is possible to become acquainted with them not only through contact with their culture at the Tayrona Museum but also by visiting their descendants, who still maintain their philosophy and style of life on the skirts of the Sierra Nevada. |
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Taganga Once you visit Taganga, you will surely want to return. Only five minutes of Santa Marta and on the most beautiful bay in the Americas, this picturesque town of fishermen receives visitors with joy and generosity. In Taganga there is space for water sports, fishing, walking the nearby beaches and enjoying an authentic lunch typical of the area, based on a fresh variety of fried fish. |
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Tayrona
Park An earthly paradise thath has beaches with crystalline waters and spectacular coral formations at the foot of impressive cliffs at the foot of the Sierra, and a wide variety of tropical flora and fauna, extends to the east of Santa Marta, between the Sierra Nevada and the waters of the Caribbean Sea. The Tayrona Park is an exuberant natural preserve known for the beauty of its surroundings and the many stone paths that lead to Pueblito, a pre-Hispanic town of the Tayrona Indians, the ancient inhabitants of the region. |
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El
Rodadero In Santa Marta, partying takes place in El Rodadero, a modern and comfortable tourist complex that offers locals and visitors the best in hotel infrastructure and nighttime fun. Located only ten minutes from the city, it borders the bay, inviting one to enjoy its clear waters and the practice of all kinds of water sports. |
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Ciudad
Perdida This impressive architectural complex that remained hidden in the forest of the Sierra Nevada for almost 400 years is evidence of the high level of development achieved by the pre-Hispanic inhabitants of these lands. Built around the year 730 AD on multiple stepped terraces along a ridge between 900 and 1300 m above sea level. To visit Ciudad Perdida is to marvel at the sophisticated stone structures surrounded by paths and stairways. |
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Sierra
Nevada de Santa Marta This is the tallest mountain bordering the sea in the world. With an extensive topography of 17000 square kilometers that ascends from sea level in the Tayrona Park to the perpetual snows of the central massif, the Sierra Nevada is an imposing mountain formation that frames the landscape of Santa Marta and its environs. It possesses a wide variety of flora and fauna and all kinds of climate, characteristics that underline its geographical and ecological importance for practicing ecological tourism and extreme sports. |
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Mamancana
Natural Reserve In Natural Reserve MAMANCANA nothing is common and current. There the best extreme adventure to only 5 minutes is lived on the sea, in the feet of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and it occurs to a perfect mixture between the adrenalin and the diversion between the nature and the sport. It is located to the front of the hotels Irotama and Zuana. Activities available to make, are 4x4, down hill, trecking, cavalcades, wall of scaling of 12 meters, cycle montanismo, rappell, arborismo, observation of birds and the possibility of staying itself in the refuge of the reserve with capacity for 14 people, diving, canopy is alternative within ours you take care of. |
