Universidad del Rosario - Sede Claustro
Colonial cloister of arched courtyards built by a seventeenth-century college, still ringing with student life.
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This guide to Universidad del Rosario's Sede Claustro in Bogotá traces the founding of the college by Fray Cristóbal de Torres in 1653 back to the hacienda Calandaima, a ten-thousand-hectare estate the founder called the most profitable in the kingdom, and the roughly one hundred forty enslaved and Indigenous Achagua people whose labor financed it. Walk the arcade slowly, rebuilt after earthquakes in 1785, 1826 and 1917, and notice whose names never appear on the walls.
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