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Shining Bogotà/ COLOMBIA { 32 images } Created 10 May 2014

After years of neglect and danger due to drug trafficking Bogota hath been redone changing the look from the inside. The current Bogota is a dynamic and open to new, very young and a bit 'undeground with important artistic trends from fashion to graffiti, full of civic initiatives worthy of a European metropolis Bogota is a city that is put into question and that does not leave anyone behind programs such as the insertion of the homeless in the modern process waste site.
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  • Bogota is one of the capitals of the South American dynamism, with skyscrapers that tower into the sky but also a lifestyle that knows how to take breaks from the hectic pace, as this man who takes advantage of Ciclovia, the municipal initiative that for years has seen the closure to motorized traffic in one of the main "carreras" of the city, every Sunday and public holidays. and the people of Bogota will enjoy their city cycling, skating, walking etc..
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  • In front of the town hall  in Bolivar square, the city's main. This horse seems to wait on customers. Pivotal meeting place for bogotans, the square can be a time of relaxation, and therefore also to the child on the horse souvenir photo rag. Or it may be a place for political discussions and demonstrations.
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  • Cityscape from Colpatria Skyscraper.At the foot of the mountains lies a modern and dynamic city
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  • La Candelaria area is "juvenile", these guys are clicking a selfie trying to include even the walls behind them, from where the existing underground cultures look at them and smile sometimes
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  • The old city center is a mixture of styles and trends, including an art deco building and a fire sale of shirts
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  • The Bolivar square, the main square of Bogota is also the mirror of the social political tensions in the country, in this case a diverse group of people has occupied a part to protest the dismissal of the mayor, but any protest movement has its stage in Bolivar square
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  • La Candelaria is a mix between undergound cultures and lifestyle old fashioned way.
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  • The cultural center Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a short distance from Bolivar square, has a well-stocked library and organizes exhibitions throughout the year. Including workshops of salsa
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  • The cultural center Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a short distance from Bolivar square, has a well-stocked library and organizes exhibitions throughout the year. Including workshops of salsa
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  • In the modern downtown area between "the T" and the "pink" zone
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  • In the city center
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  • Roads and modernity are the pride of the city. Born at the turn of the century, the system combines Transimilenio quickly across Bogota.
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  • Roads and modernity are the pride of the city. Born at the turn of the century, the system combines Transimilenio quickly across Bogota.
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  • Twilight in the T-zone, pedestrian area, a T-shaped and totally made ​​up of bars, restaurants, and stylish, modern shops.
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  • As in all of Colombia, in Bogota also all know how to dance and do so often, El Sitio is one of the most fashionable places, where the upper middle class city spends his evenings having dinner and then dancing.
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  • Doing Jazzercise at parque Herrera, during Ciclovia.
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  • The Parque Bolivar is a green lung of the city a bit 'far from the center, these guys can train yourself to do somersaults without the risk of getting hurt on the asphalt of any city street.
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  • In the Usaquen Sunday market
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  • For the amount of cultural stimuli that owns Bogota is known as the Athens of South America. While not Bogotan, the sculptor Ferdinand Botero is the most famous living Colombian figurative artist in the world, the Museo de la Casa de la Moneda, central and owned by the Central Bank, has dedicated a section, which is crowded ...
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  • The urban art of Bogota is one level higher than other Latin American cities. The faces of the grafitist Stinkfish have a nice presence on city walls
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  • Lesivo
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  • The grafitist Guache is also a professor in a school of fine arts and uses the computer to its indigenous identity projects.
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  • Enrique Soto, after a long experience as an advertising first in New York and then in Bogota has opened the art gallery El Garaje, in the elegant area of Chapinero high. He invested in the young artists
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  • Alejandro Sanchez at work, reworks pictorially themed images, often found on the internet, his specialty is the seriality and puts a lot of irony in his works. Thanks to get known with the gallery El Garaje now exhibited in the USA, Switzerland and Buenos Aires
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  • A bold work of designer bow tie Ivethe Piñeros
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  • One of the negative characteristics of Bogota, as well as Cali, is the amount of homeless people in the city center, sleeping everywhere and they live by their wits because, at least most of it is dependent on the pasta basic cocaine.
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  • The big project "Bogota Humana" wanted by progressive administration led by Mayor Gustavo Petro includes the work of CAMAD, a mobile structure to the aid of the Homeless. Dr. Claudia Helena Osorio, religious woman of great sensitivity has managed to make friends with the homeless who live in its area of ​​intervention, in the south of the city. During a celebration of her socialization and Dr. Mercedes Castiblanco dancing with some assisted
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  • The big project "Bogota Humana" wanted by progressive administration led by Mayor Gustavo Petro includes the work of CAMAD, a mobile structure to the aid of the Homeless. You can create events to give them a shower, clean clothes, food and a haircut
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  • That of household waste seems to be a big local  problem in the resolution phase, the project is focusing on Bogota Humana collection that starts directly from private households. As in the European and North American cities, begin to appear in Bogota bags of waste.
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  • That of household waste seems to be a big local problem in the  resolution phase, the project is focusing on Bogota Humana collection that starts directly from private households. As in the European and North American cities, begin to appear in Bogota bags of waste. Then there are the recyclers who deal with the collection and at the bottom of the cooperatives, which are also under the umbrella of Bogota Humana, disposal and recycling that deal with the rest.
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  • Given that most of the homeless is dedicated to the collection of recyclable waste, the project Bogota Humana has turned this into a business casual work almost normal, comes given a daily wage to collect more comes bought them, almost always, the materile recyclable
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  • Given that most of the homeless is dedicated to the collection of recyclable waste, the project Bogota Humana has turned this into a business casual work almost normal, comes given a daily wage to collect more comes bought them, almost always, the recyclable stuff
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