Palacio de San Carlos

This guide to Palacio de San Carlos in Bogotá opens on the night of September 25, 1828, when gunfire broke out beneath the window of the room where Simón Bolívar was bathing. You'll hear about the dozen civilians and twenty-five soldiers who stormed the palace at midnight, and about his partner Manuela Sáenz, who woke him and stood her ground with the conspirators as he weighed what to do next. The palace was already two centuries old, built for an archdeacon before generations as a Jesuit seminary and then a presidential residence.