Tunja

Tunja is the capital of Boyaca state is located 2 hours from bogota (120 km) using a highway in good condition. It is recommend to take clothes for cold climate, the average temperature is of 15 °C., the same as in other parts of the state, on the nights the temperature can drop to 5 °C.

Tunja altitude is 2775 m.s.l. and has a population of 130.000 habitants.

It is the capital of Boyacá Department, whish in the Muisca language means "Land of Blankets" or "Royal Mantle." Tunja is a culture and religious destination par excellence, to go to the downtown take the tree street which take you straight to the Bolivar square and the cathedral. We recommend to take a walk from there, is the best way to enjoy the treasures that Tunja offers in his churches, convents, monasteries and houses, that evoke the baroque, mudejar and renaissance style. Tunja is for that reason a guardian of one of the most valuable art collection.

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 Some Colombians may tell you there's nothing to see in Tunja, but you'd be surprised. The city has preserved its colonial past and as what many purport to be the only surviving founder's house in all Colombia (some say all of Latina America), the Casa del Fundador Gonzalo Suárez Rendón. Many of the Catholic temples share a gold-leaf-on-red motif, most stunningly displayed in the Iglesia de Santo Domingo. Santa Bárbara church houses works embroidered by Juana la Loca, the "mad" mother of Spanish emperor Carlos V. A few fragments of the Muisca indigenous culture remain. The most important part of Tunjano history, however, is the Wars of Independence; 15 kilometers (8 miles) south is where the monumental Batalla de Boyacá was fought, after which the Viceroy of Nueva Granada knew the end of Spanish domination was at hand.

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