Guadalupe Hill
Fifteen-meter hilltop statue of the Virgin Mary, crowning a colonial pilgrimage shrine rebuilt after repeated earthquakes.
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This guide to Guadalupe Hill in Bogotá opens with the fifteen-meter white statue everyone calls the Virgin of Guadalupe, though sculptor Gustavo Arcila Uribe actually carved something else in nineteen forty-six. You'll hear how the name stuck from a much older Spanish devotion, and about the string of earthquakes, in seventeen forty-three, seventeen eighty-five, eighteen twenty-six, and nineteen seventeen, that flattened the hilltop shrine again and again. Listen for how each rebuilding brought pilgrims back up the same steep trail with the same request.
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