Cemeteries and memorials to visit Colombia

In 2017, following the peace agreements between the Colombian government and FARC that put an end to several years of guerrilla warfare, this place of remembrance and reflection on the civil war came into being in Bogotá. The motivations, concept and purpose of this unprecedented monument demand respect and humility. Firstly, it was conceived by a woman, Doris Salcedo. Intended as a "counter-monument", it breaks with the traditional codes of memorial sites by focusing not on a factual historical narrative, but on the ruptures and traumas generated by the armed conflict, here recognized and made visible. Among these is war rape, symbolically represented and highlighted by the participation of over twenty women who were victims of sexual violence during the civil war in the creation of the site. On a human scale, this space is conceptual and uncluttered, and composed of a horizontal metal structure that forms several rooms, following the traces of the ruins of the house on which the counter-monument is founded. The appearance is unfinished and the interior empty, a metaphor for the destruction and emptiness left by war. The floor is made of melted material from over 13,000 weapons that once belonged to FARC. The exterior is a lush garden. The whole is a living work of art, eloquent, sensitive and provocative. A place of recollection, memory, reflection and creation, various events are organized. The site will be open for 53 years, the duration of the conflict.

Neoclassical work of the 1930 s, the pantheon houses the graves of the city's illustrious children such as the scientist Caldas, Francisco de Ulloa, General Tomas Cipriano de Mosquera, José Hilario López, among others. Next door is the municipal theatre.