Casa de Nariño
Neoclassical presidential palace built on the birthplace of an independence-era translator jailed for printing banned human-rights texts.
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This guide to Casa de Nariño in Bogotá goes back to a locked room on this same ground in late seventeen ninety-three, where a young lawyer named Antonio Nariño fed sheet after sheet through his own printing press, translating a French pamphlet the Spanish crown had banned. You'll hear who he passed the copies to at gatherings he called the Sanctuary, and how the house he grew up in didn't survive to see what came of it. The building standing here now, with its neoclassical columns, tells a separate story about who rebuilt this spot decades later.
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