Parque Metropolitano Simón Bolívar
Sprawling metropolitan park with a boating lake, running paths, and open lawns for kite flying and concerts.
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This guide to Parque Metropolitano Simón Bolívar in Bogotá opens on a kite flying in the August wind, and traces the tradition back to colonial-era fairs tied to the feast of the Virgin of the Assumption. It covers the park's founding in the 1960s, dedicated to mark the bicentennial of Simón Bolívar's birth, and the ten-hectare lake where visitors still rent rowboats. Listen for how the site grew from farmland into the city's biggest gathering ground.
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