Bogota Colombia: Pasaje Hernández an architectural gem

Elpais.com reported that in the center of Bogotá is another city within the city you have to go to wander aimlessly, with eyes wide open and attentive to the surprise did not expect and can appear in any corner, and the Passage Hernandez in the block located between races 8 and 9 and 12th and 13th Streets, with cream and aqua walls and modern Parisian air that you presume, and rightly so, to all its neighbors.

Let’s take a trip back in time. In the late nineteenth century Bogotá was a city of just over 100,000 inhabitants looked with envy at Europe dreamed shake the heavy colonial legacy and be like Paris, London and Milan. And how even a little look at these great capitals? Building on what was at the heart of the city shopping arcade of the European style. The architects Juan Ballesteros, Arturo Jaramillo and Gaston Lelarge got to work and designed the Passage Hernandez. Divided into two floors …….Read Article