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Church Attractions In Colombia

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Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country largely situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America. Colombia shares a border to the northwest with Panama, to the east with Venezuela and Brazil and to the south with Ecuador and Peru. It shares its maritime limits with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The sovereign state of Colombia is a unitary, constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. Colombia has been inhabited by various indigenous peoples since 12,000 BCE, including the Muisca, Quimbaya, and the Tairona. The Spanish arrived in 1499 and by ...
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  • 1. Santa Barbara Church Mompos
    Mompox or Mompós, officially Santa Cruz de Mompox, is a town and municipality in northern Colombia, in the Bolívar Department, which has preserved its colonial character. Mompox depends upon tourism, fishing and some commerce generated by the local cattle raising. It has about 30,000 inhabitants, and is adjacent to the municipalities of Pinillos and San Fernando. Simón Bolívar, liberator of much of Spanish South America, said If to Caracas I owe my life, then to Mompox I owe my glory. Simón Bolívar arrived in Mompox in 1812 and recruited nearly all of the able bodied men, some four hundred, who formed the basis of the army for his victory in Caracas.
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  • 2. Catedral de Manizales Manizales
    The Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá is an underground Roman Catholic church built within the tunnels of a salt mine 200 metres underground in a halite mountain near the town of Zipaquirá, in Cundinamarca, Colombia. It is a tourist destination and place of pilgrimage in the country. The temple at the bottom has three sections, representing the birth, life, and death of Jesus. The icons, ornaments and architectural details are hand carved in the halite rock. Some marble sculptures are included. The Salt Cathedral is considered one of the most notable achievements of Colombian architecture, being described as a Jewel of Modern Architecture. The cathedral represents a valuable cultural, environmental and religious patrimony for the Colombian people.The cathedral is a functioning church that rece...
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  • 3. Cathedral of the Holy Family Bucaramanga
    This is the list of cathedrals in Colombia sorted by denomination.
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  • 6. Catedral de Sal Zipaquira
    The Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá is an underground Roman Catholic church built within the tunnels of a salt mine 200 metres underground in a halite mountain near the town of Zipaquirá, in Cundinamarca, Colombia. It is a tourist destination and place of pilgrimage in the country. The temple at the bottom has three sections, representing the birth, life, and death of Jesus. The icons, ornaments and architectural details are hand carved in the halite rock. Some marble sculptures are included. The Salt Cathedral is considered one of the most notable achievements of Colombian architecture, being described as a Jewel of Modern Architecture. The cathedral represents a valuable cultural, environmental and religious patrimony for the Colombian people.The cathedral is a functioning church that rece...
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  • 9. Basilica de la Inmaculada Concepcion Jardin
    The Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Conception is a Colombian Catholic basilica located in Jardín, Antioquia, within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jericó. It is a Neo-Gothic temple that lacks a rib vault and occupies an area of 1.680m², built entirely from hand carved stone quarried in the foothills of the town.
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