Claustro de San Agustín - Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Colonial cloister-turned-barracks where a revolutionary translator was seized and marched into years of prison.
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This guide to the Claustro de San Agustín in Bogotá follows Antonio Nariño, who had already been jailed once for secretly translating and printing the Rights of Man, back into custody here on November 23, 1809, accused alongside a cathedral priest of plotting again. You'll hear how a cloister built in the 1730s as a university library, meant to hold books for young Creoles, had become a barracks by the night Viceroy Amar y Borbón's men came for him. Stand in the same quiet courtyard now, kept by Universidad Nacional.
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