Teatro Municipal Jorge Eliécer Gaitán
Art deco theater hall where a fiery Friday orator once filled every seat before his assassination shook the city.
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This guide to Teatro Municipal Jorge Eliecer Gaitan in Bogota centers on the lawyer who used this stage, then the Teatro Colombia, as his personal pulpit every Friday night, drawing crowds of two thousand six hundred to hear him rail against hunger, wages and the ruling class. It follows the theater's own construction by the American firm behind New York's Chrysler Building, then turns to what happened to Gaitan on a street a few minutes' walk from here. Look for the five carved figures still watching from the stone front.
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