Museo Quinta de Bolívar
Colonial country house gifted to a revolutionary hero, its uniforms, letters and weapons still on display in period gardens.
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This guide to Museo Quinta de Bolívar in Bogotá starts at an empty display case and a note left behind in 1974, then goes back to 1820, when Bogotá gave this ruined estate to Simón Bolívar in gratitude for independence. It follows his brief stays here, planning campaigns and drafting a constitution, and the house's stranger later lives as a spa, brewery and tannery before the city bought it back. It also follows the guerrilla group M-19, who forced the lock on that case one January afternoon and drove off in a borrowed car. The uniforms, letters and weapons around it fill the period gardens outside.
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