The Boyacá Bridge was declared a national monument in 1920. It is located in a large memorial park below the Autopista del Norte, 130 km north of Bogotá and 14 km southwest of Tunja. It was around this bridge that Simón Bolívar's independence fighters, Francisco de Paula Santander and José Antonio Anzoátegui, defeated the Spanish royalist army on August 7, 1819. This event, whose bicentennial was celebrated with force in 2019, was decisive in the process of independence of Colombia and the neighboring countries that would later unite in the Great Colombia. The bridge is not spectacular in itself, it appears as a narrow footbridge over the river Teatinos and has been restored a little too neatly. A flame burns permanently in the place of the flags of the liberated countries to commemorate ad vitam aeternam the Freedom of the American nations. It is hard to imagine that bloody battles took place in this green and gently undulating place. One must see rows of infantrymen in brightly colored uniforms, one knee on the ground, firing at a row of enemy soldiers a few meters away... A little higher up the hill, several monuments were erected to commemorate the independence victory, including a bronze sculpture of Simón Bolívar on a pedestal supported by five women, allegories to the five liberated nations (Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia).

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