Independence Museum - Casa del Florero
Colonial corner house where a broken vase over a borrowed favor ignited an uprising against Spanish rule.
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This guide to the Independence Museum in Bogotá returns to the twentieth of July, seventeen ten, an ordinary market day at this corner house belonging to Spanish merchant Jose Gonzalez Llorente. You'll hear about the two creole brothers, Antonio and Francisco Morales, who walked in that morning asking to borrow something for a dinner honoring a newly arrived Spanish commissioner, and about the months of resentment already simmering among Bogotá's creoles. Stand where Llorente gave his answer, and listen for what the crowd outside was already primed to do with it.
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