Usaquén
Cobblestone plaza and colonial parish church anchoring a Sunday flea market on former Muisca ground.
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This guide to Usaquén's plaza in Bogotá follows the neighborhood's name back to the Muisca leaders known as usaque, and to the Dominican friars who built a chapel here in 1665. It traces how the parish came to honor Santa Bárbara, a saint associated with storms, and the beliefs the Muisca once held about the sky. Listen for the bells on her December feast day, still rung over the same plaza.
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